The champion of an ancient, all-embracing Culture in which there is no disease or disaster, Gurgeh beats everyone at a series of endless games, until he accepts the challenge from the Empire of Azad and discovers what the Game is really all about. Reprint.

The Player of Games

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Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

Raw Spirit

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

Arrow

Horza, a Changer, finds himself at the center of an epic galactic confrontation between the fanatical Idirans and the communistic Culture, made up of humans ruled by the Mind machines that they have created

Consider Phlebas

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

St Martins Pr

United States

A man wakes up after an accident, a victim of amnesia, and finds himself in a surrealistic world of blurred dreams and reality, attended by a physician who does not seem to want to cure him

The Bridge

The war is ending, perhaps ended. But for the castle and its occupants, the troubles are just beginning - armed gangs roam a lawless land and taking to the roads with the other refugees, anonymous in their raggedness, seems safer than remaining in the ancient keep.

A Song of Stone

Literary

Simon&Schuster

ABACUS +

Physical description; 390 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; NOT price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations. Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley, a ranch in Nebraska, the firm's secretive Swiss headquarters, and a remote Himalayan principality. In the course of her journey Kate must peel away layers of emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime. She must learn to keep her world at arm's length. To take control, she has to do The Business. Subjects; International agencies - Fiction. Businesswomen - Fiction. Modern fiction. Fiction / General. Genre; Fiction.

The Business

Little Brown, 1999

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The Steep Approach to Garbadale

Contemporary

Little,Brown

Kate is a senior executive officer in a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organization. The character of The Business seems, even to her, to be vague to the point of invisibility. Her job is to keep abreast of technological developments, but she must let go the assumptions of a lifetime.

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The Player of Games

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The Player of Games

The Bridge

A Song of Stone

A Song of Stone

The Business

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