![]() ![]() However, for a champion like him, it can become difficult to find a challenge that appeals to him. In such a situation, games can be an important way to pass the time and for Jernau Morat Gurgeh they have become a reason for living. The Culture is an advanced post-scarcity civilization to the point that its citizens don’t need to work to live. To do this, Gurgeh ends up accepting the offer to travel to the Empire of Azad. Gurgeh only partially accepts the help and doesn’t achieve perfection but above all Mawhrin-Skel blackmails him to get help from him to be readmitted in Special Circumstances, which had expelled it due to its instability. ![]() The robot Mawhrin-Skel offers Gurgeh help in a match that would allow him to achieve a perfect score. The commitment seems too heavy and Gurgeh declines the offer. The Contact section offers him to go to the Empire of Azad to participate in a very special game that goes far beyond the normal concept of board game but that civilization’s home planet is many light-years away from the Culture and the journey would take a few years. Jernau Morat Gurgeh is the best player in the Culture but his skill with any type of game leads him to get bored. Banks was published for the first time in 1988. The novel “The Player of Games” by Iain M. ![]()
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