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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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Light wear to dust jacket. First edition in priced dust jacket. Full number line. Gurgeh is one of the greatest game-players the Culture's ever produced; respected and rarely beaten, he is successful at almost everything. the Empire of Azad, a civilization of immense and appalling cruelty. where there exists a game so complex and so closely modeled on the rules of existence that the winner becomes Emperor. Seller Inventory # 014989
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