5/8/2023 0 Comments Banks the player of gamesHave achieved such a pinnacle, Gurgeh is bored out of his mind and spoiling for a challenge of some kind. He plays games, almost any type of game, and he is probably the best player of games in the entire Culture. Banks employs a subtle, double-edged wit to portray simultaneously both the utopian aspects of this society and how it might look to the aliens it encounters.īut first, let's talk about the eponymous Jernah Morat Gurgeh. Most of the book takes place in a society outside the Culture, but make no mistake: this is an indictment, in some ways, of the sneakiness with which the Culture disarms possible threats. In this return to the Culture universe, Banks manages to craft a character and a story that are compelling, both on an emotional and on a philosophical level. The Player of Games more than makes up for any disappointment I felt over Consider Phlebas. I read The Player of Games because I am an artificial intelligence, post-scarcity junkie, and Banks is the kind of author who serves as my pusher. I liked but didn't love the first book in this series, Consider Phlebas, and I absolutely hated The Algebraist.
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