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The Player of Games
Culture Series, Book 2
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Narrateur(s):
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Peter Kenny
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Auteur(s):
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Iain M. Banks
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The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.
'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson
The Culture - a utopian human-machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many expert Game Players, and one of the greatest is Jernau Morat Gurgeh. He is Master of every board, computer and strategy - he is The Player of Games.
Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the cruel and incredibly wealthy Empire of Azad to try their infamous game . . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh plays the game, and faces the challenge of his life - and very possibly his death.
Praise for the Culture series:
'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday
'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian
'Banks's sci-fi, at its best, is staggeringly inventive, beautifully written, dramatic and often very funny. His stories are packed with ideas, warships with minds very much of their own, alien races, charismatic drones and intergalactic politics' New Scientist
'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman
'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph
The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
The State of the Art
Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist
Also now available:
The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.
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- 2024-10-21
Excellent story and performance
I really enjoyed this book, the characters, the universe, and the storyline were all so well done. The voice acting was also really good, allowing each character to have a distinct voice.
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- Amazon Customer
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So good.
Story is excellent, detailed, very sci fi yet descriptive enough to picture even the scenes of worlds literally out of this world. Character is very well constructed and interestingly to be likeable.
The narrator is on point, and elegantly switches between with the different tones for the different characters.
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- Shesophist
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Great fun
-1 stars to performance for some garbled sections. could be my Bluetooth but I replayed and still garbled.
Very enjoyable novel, that doesn't rely too heavily on violence, but rather on playing the galaxy's craziest board game! the twists aren't all that unexpected, but it's an enjoyable ride throughout
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- Ryan Seymour
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Unbelievably good
I slept on this book for quite a while, but Player of Games is hands down the best science fiction story I've experienced in a very long time.
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But to focus on any one part of this story would be to do the work as a whole an injustice. Don't make the same mistake I did, give this book a shot, it really has to be experienced to be believed.
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- subprimefree
- 2022-07-16
Unlikeable characters
I struggled to finish, as the characters pursued uninteresting values and were uninspiring and dull.
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