В утопии будущего высшая ставка — это игра. Гург-э-ч, величайший игрок в продвинутом обществе «Культуры», отправляется в жестокую империю Азэд, где судьбы миров решаются не войной, а сложнейшей в галактике настольной игрой.The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modernscience fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination withexceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of themost extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.
'Banks is a phenomenon’William Gibson
The Culture - a utopian human-machine symbiotic society - has thrown upmany expert Game Players, and one of the greatest is Jernau MoratGurgeh. He is Master of every board, computer and strategy - he is ThePlayer of Games.
Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the cruel and incredibly wealthyEmpire of Azad to try their infamous game . . . a game so complex, solike life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed,almost murdered, Gurgeh plays the game, and faces the challenge of his
life - and very possibly his death.
Praise for the Culture series:
'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its
execution' Independent on Sunday
'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of thefuture' Guardian
'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention'Scotsman
'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph
The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
The State of the Art
Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist
Also now available:
The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of originalillustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons andlanguage of Banks'Culture series of novels in incredible detail.
Iain Banks (1954-2013)came to widespread and controversial publicnotice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in1984. Consider Phlebas,his first science fiction novel, was publishedunder the name Iain M.Banks in 1987 and began his celebrated ten-bookCulture series. He is acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovativeand exciting writers of his generation.