The Player of Games

Iain Banks

1988

Gurgeh is one of the greatest game-players the Culture's ever produced; respected and rarely beaten, he is successful at almost everything he attempts. Nevertheless in time, feeling unfulfilled, he becomes restless and asks Contact- the Culture organisation whose job it is to find, investigate, analyse and occasionally interfere in other civilisations- to find something that might challenge him.--Jacket flap.