The Player of Games: A Culture Novel [Audiobook] download free by Iain M. Banks
- Listen audiobook: The Player of Games: A Culture Novel
- Author: Iain M. Banks
- Release date: 1989/12/29
- Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Fiction
- ISBN: 9781857231465
- Rating: 7.13 of 10
- Votes: 815
- Review by: Meredith Phillips
- Review rating: 8.78 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/23
- Duration: 3H55M59S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, WMA, AIFF, ATRAC, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression RAR, CAB, ZIP, TZO)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M11S (7 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The second Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.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.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'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph The Culture series:Consider PhlebasThe Player of GamesUse of WeaponsThe State of the ArtExcessionInversionsLook to WindwardMatterSurface DetailThe Hydrogen SonataOther books by Iain M. Banks:Against a Dark BackgroundFeersum EndjinnThe Algebraist
- Other categories, genre or collection: Science Fiction
- Download servers: CmisSync, FileServe, Memopal, Dropbox, Torrent, MEGA. Compressed in RAR, CAB, ZIP, TZO
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.19 USD
- Dimensions: 129x196x21mm
- Weight: 233g
- Printed by: Orbit
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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