The Player of Games - Couverture souple

Banks, Iain

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061053562 ISBN 13 : 9780061053566

Editeur : HarperCollins, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Banks Iain

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 Iain M. Banks:

"Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy -- the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more" -- NME

"An exquisitely riotous tour de force of the imagination which writes its own rules simply for the pleasure of breaking them." -- Time Out

Biographie de l'auteur :

Iain Banks came to controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. CONSIDER PHLEBAS, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987. He is now widely acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation. Iain Banks lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0061053562
• ISBN 13: 9780061053566
• Reliure: Broché