The player of games by Ian m banks
#ThePlayerOfGames For the first 150 pages I HATED it, and then it was totally solid and I loved it~
Pros
deep world building for the Culture
Progressive utopian visions
Remarkable skill for getting readers invested in games you don’t understand and are never explained
Cons
The first 150 pages
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“Think of it as a sort of mutual rape.” — Iain M. Banks, ‘The Player of Games’
“The Board of Becoming was the least well-played of the three great boards, Gurgeh felt, and one the Empire seemed to understand imperfectly, and pay too little attention to.” — Iain M. Banks, ‘The Player of Games’
Returned to reading Iain M Bank's "The Player of Games". I started it a while back but had to abandon it for reasons I cannot recall. #reading #BookSky #ThePlayerofGames
“Empires are synonymous with centralized—if occasionally schismatized—hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through—usually—a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society’s information dissemination systems and its lesser—as a rule nominally independent—power systems. In short, it’s all about dominance.” — Iain M. Banks, ‘The Player of Games’
“The ship told you a guilty system recognizes no innocents.” — Iain M. Banks, ‘The Player of Games’
“The rain gusted on the wind.” — Iain M. Banks, ‘The Player of Games’
The giant "alien" probe V'GER in Star Trek: the Motion Picture
We've finally got old Gurgeh off Chiark Orbital, fizzing away in a stripped down .mil ship to rendezvous with the Cloudbound General Systems Vehicle Little Rascal.
Does Gurgeh understand what might happen to him? That he might've been tricked?
Of course not!
That's part of the fun!
#ThePlayerOfGames
