Read an extract from The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

09:40 - 28 Nov 2025

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The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading Iain M. Banks's classic sci-fi novel The Player of Games. In this extract, we meet protagonist Gurgeh for the first time

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