The Culture’s “Contact” section send The Culture’s greatest game player to an empire that is totally constructed around the playing of one game.   Where everyone’s social standing, career, political involvement and status is determined by the results of their playing of the game.

The goal being to totally destabilise the empire from within.

Will it work?

A rather unusual sci-fi novel, but really, really good.   I couldn’t put this one down.

Next up in The Culture series is The State of the Art.

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