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The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1988.
The second of the Culture novels. Gurgeh, a brilliant, though decadent, game player from the Culture, is entrapped and blackmailed to work as a Special Circumstances agent in the brutal Empire of Azad. Their system of society and government is entirely based on an elaborate strategy game, Azad.
Jernau Morat Gurgeh lives on Chiark Orbital, and is bored with his successful life. The Culture's...
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