Twelve kinds of taste
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OverDrive, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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.
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Richly built, plot-driven, cool and contemporary.
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On Open Library, 116 have read it and 155 want to.
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Source: Wikipedia
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“Is this Iain Banks's best work?”
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“Is the world more interesting than the story?”
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“Is The player of games a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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