<p>Gurgeh, a champion game player, travels a hundred thousand light years to the Empire of Azad, where the winner of their complex game becomes emperor</p>

The Player of Games

iain-m-banks

Literature & Fiction

HarperPaperbacks

Hardcover in slipcase, Limited edition in slipcase.

Consider Phlebas Special Edition

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Pan/Macmillan

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. First appearance of this 1988 novel, the second book in Banks' future history, "The Culture." This is a highly collectible book when found in nice condition.

The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)

Macmillan

Use of Weapons

Orbit

The State of the Art

<p>First World edition (British); first printing (not stated); hardcover with dustjacket, 1991. Collection of stories, many part of the author's series, "The Culture." This first edition is quite collectible when found in nice condition. Interior illustrations by Nick Day, and these stories: Road of Skulls (1988); A Gift from the Culture [Culture] (1987); Odd Attachment (1989); Descendant [Culture] (1987); Cleaning Up (1987); Piece (1989); The State of the Art [Culture] (1989); Scratch (1987).</p>

Hydrogen Sonata

The Hydrogen Sonata: A Culture Novel

It is, truly, probably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, they helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now theyve made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence. Amidst preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed and Cossont is blamed. Wanted deadnot alive. Now, aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Commandfind the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. Cossont must discover the truth before shes exiled from her people and her civilization foreveror just plain killed.

The Hydrogen Sonata

Little,Brown

The Culture: The Drawings: The Locus Award Winner

Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel

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