The Player of Games (Culture Series #2) Memoir_Gift_Guide award-winning Shaken series

award-winning Shaken series

But when the Bureau finds out he's been recounting the memories – and that the depression is in him

“[Jones’s] writing is hallucinogenic

Vietnam offers the grand narrative of the country's complex past and the creation of the modern state of Vietnam

They earn fifty million dollars—and a chance to make history

The Player of Games (Culture Series #2) Memoir_Gift_Guide award-winning Shaken seriesThe Culture a human machine symbiotic society has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts