![]() Its protagonist Bora Horza Gobuchul is an enemy of the Culture. Humanity has filled the galaxy, and thanks to ultra-high technology everyone has everything they want, no one gets sick, and no one dies. The novel revolves around the IdiranCulture War, and Banks plays on that theme by presenting various microcosms of that conflict. OL100779W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.21 Pages 332 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1845057511 Banks presents a distant future that could almost be called the end of history. OL2052117M Openlibrary_subject long_now_manual_for_civilization Openlibrary_work In Banks's world of the Culture, capitalism and wage work have been abolished, so Gergeh is free to play, as is everyone else. ![]() He is a master game player and he is running out of challenges. Jernau Gergeh is 60, and he has a bad case of ennui. Urn:lcp:playerofgames00bank:epub:16a570f2-2f6b-40f2-97b0-75e5b611db92 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier playerofgames00bank Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2p568m0x Isbn 0312026307ĩ780312026301 Lccn 88029899 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition 'The Player of Games' (1988) is another amusing, easy-to-read tale from Iain M. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:28:10 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA122107 Camera Canon 5D City New York Curatestate approved DonorĪlibris Edition 1st U.S. Banks, The Player of Games tags: centures, dreams, jernau-morat-gurgeh, made-half-of-dreams, mothballed, silence, waking, warship 9 likes Like All reality seemed to hinge on those infinitesimal bundles of meaning. ![]()
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