num_pages: 293
description: The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel &amp; 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.
language: English
title: The Player of Games
titlecomplete: The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
characters: Jernau Morat Gurgeh
genres: Audiobook, Cultural, Novels, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Space, Space Opera
ratings_count: 70327
places: Empire of Azad
series: Culture
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Traduction, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Tähtivaeltaja Award
publisher: HarperCollins