Das Spiel Azad by Iain Banks
A masterful gamesman from an advanced, post-scarcity civilization, bored with success and searching for challenge, is recruited to compete in a vast, ritualized tournament whose rules determine the political rank and fate of an authoritarian alien empire; as he rises through ever more elaborate stages, the contest becomes a mirror for questions of power, culture and morality, exposing how a society’s structures are encoded into its games and forcing difficult choices about intervention, identity and the costs of victory.
- Published
- 1988
- Nationality
- Scottish
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 300-400 pages
- Original Language
- English
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(4.0)
- Alternate Titles
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- Das Spiel Azad
- The Player of Games
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