The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1988. A film version was planned by Pathe in the 1990s, but was ultimately abandoned.
The Player of Games is the second of the Culture novels. Gurgeh, a brilliant, though decadent, game player from the Culture, is entrapped and blackmailed into unwittingly acting as a Special Circumstances agent in the brutal Empire of Azad. Their system of society...
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The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1988. A film version was planned by Pathe in the 1990s, but was ultimately abandoned.
The Player of Games is the second of the Culture novels. Gurgeh, a brilliant, though decadent, game player from the Culture, is entrapped and blackmailed into unwittingly acting 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 Special Circumstances (SC) section suggests that he travel to participate in a games tournament in a distant and isolated alien civilization, the Empire of Azad. In the Empire, a complex game (also named Azad) is used to determine social rank and political status. At the same time, he is blackmailed by an ex-SC drone into accepting the assignment so that he can use SC's need of...
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