Science Fiction

The Player of Games

by Iain M. Banks · Culture series

Jernau Morat Gurgeh, master of every game and bored with success in the Culture's post-scarcity society, travels to the Empire of Azad—cruel, wealthy, and utterly unlike home. There, an ancient contest becomes both personal challenge and political minefield, with civilizational stakes.

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