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The Player of Games
Sci-Fi
A Culture novel: a master gamer from a post-scarcity utopia is sent to play a brutal civilization-defining game inside a rival empire. Banks' best entry point and Zuck's only fiction pick of the year.
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Thirteenth A Year of Books pick, announced June 29, 2015 — the only fiction title in the lineup.
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“Iain M. Banks' amazing Culture series [is] a huge personal favorite”
The page cites a Jeff Bezos tweet about the Culture series.
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“I'd recommend reading Player of Games & Surface Detail first. They're all great.”
Suggested entry point to the Culture series.
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Listed on Stewart Brand's Manual for Civilization book list.
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Listed on Karpathy's personal science-fiction page.
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5 SOURCEs- en.wikipedia.org reading list
- twitter.com tweet
- twitter.com tweet
- blog.longnow.org · Stewart Brand Book List for Manual reading list
- Andrej Karpathy's Books reading list
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