Playaway Adult Fiction: Player of Games (Pre-recorded digital audio player)

from DRFP

I was distinctly unimpressed with Consider Phlebas, the first Culture novel. Thankfully, this, the second one written, is far better. Unlike Phlebas this is a coherent novel and not a bunch of different science fiction ideas loosely hanging together. True, Banks almost lets things run away from h...

from elenchus

THE CULTURE: BOOK 2 | The Player of Games The story opens in an orthodox 3P omniscient, but a 1P intrusion soon suggests an unreliable narrator (or are there two?). As in Book 1, Banks subverts the standard genre story, with the riddle resolved in the last pages. Majority of narration follows Gur...

from SpaceandSorcery

For a long time I've wanted to tackle Iain M. Banks' famous Culture saga, that's been often hailed as one of the most fascinating and interesting of our times. Several years ago I did read the first book, Consider Phlebas, and though I didn't exactly dislike it, it somehow failed to captivate me....

from antao

"All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games. By ...

from RobertDay

This book, Banks' second excursion into the Culture, is a very different proposition to his first sf novel, 'Consider Phlebas'. That book was a fairly straight action-adventure story (most likely to sell to a publisher), albeit one told from the viewpoint of someone opposed to the Culture. Here, ...