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” The Player of Games” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read.The Culture – a human/machine symbiotic society – has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer, and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game… a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life – and very possibly his death.

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“The Player of Games” (1988) is another amusing, easy-to-read tale from Iain M. Banks (1954-2013). Jernau Gergeh is 60, and he has a bad case of ennui. He is a master game player and he is running out of challenges. In Banks’s world of the Culture, capitalism and wage work have been abolished, so Gergeh is free to play, as is everyone else. Gergeh accepts the challenge of traveling across the galaxy to play what sounds like an amazing game called Azad, which is central to the Empire of Azad. The game powerfully shapes the society, and is the basis of leader selection and promotion in the hierarchy. Banks never provides the details of the game, but it sounds like a more much complex Risk. As Gergeh plays the game and learns of the cruelty of the Azad society, he comes to find that he is not only a player, but being played.The drone assigned to assist Gergeh (drones are AI equivalent in intelligence to humans) enjoys birdwatching on the planet where the game is played.