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Author
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B |
Iain
M Banks |
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Title
Index
The |
The
Player of Games |
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| Year |
1988 |
| Publisher |
Futura
(Orbit) |
| ISBN |
0708883095 |
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Synopsis
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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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Review
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In Consider
Phlebas, Iain
M Banks created a
universe, two
civilisations and
a cosmic
war. Now he
has written a
witty,
wide-screened
successor, set
several hundred
years later ...
"The most
imaginative
British novelist
of his
generation"
The Times |
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Credit:
NASA
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Expedition
9
Astronaut
Mike
Fincke
juggles
oranges in
zero
gravity
Astronaut
Edward M.
(Mike)
Fincke,
Expedition
9 NASA
science
officer
and flight
engineer
aboard the
International
Space
Station,
juggles
fresh
fruit in
the
Destiny
laboratory.
The
weightless
environment
of space
proves to
be an
ideal
location
for some
tasks not
so easily
accomplished
in Earth's
gravity. |
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NASA
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the day
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