The Player of Games

What it does

The Player of Games is a 1988 science-fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks . It was the second-published Culture novel . Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a famously skillful player of board games and other similar contests, lives on Chiark Orbital , and is bored with his successful life. The Culture 's Special Circumstances (SC) inquires about his willingness to participate in a long journey but will not explain further unless Gurgeh agrees to participate. While he is considering this offer, one of his drone acquaintances, Mawhrin-Skel, which had been ejected from SC due to its unstable personality, convinces him to cheat in one of his games in an attempt to win in an unprecedentedly perfect…from en.wikipedia.org

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