THE PLAYER OF GAMES

by Iain Banks

$1,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition · Signed

London: Macmillan, 1988 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 201 numbered copies signed by Banks. Second novel of the Culture sequence. ... though more economically told than CONSIDER PHLEBAS 1987 , its bulbous predecessor, less challengingly pits its protagonist against a savage game-based civilization, which he causes to crumble. - John Clute and David Langford, SFE online . Sargent,

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