The Player of Games

2009-12-01
The Player of Games

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  • Author: Iain M. Banks
  • Publisher: Orbit
  • ISBN: 0316095869
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 281

The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life — and very possibly his death. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata

The Game-players of Titan

1963
The Game-players of Titan

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  • Author: Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780586209714
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

The Gameplayers of Zan

1979-01-01
The Gameplayers of Zan

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  • Author: M. A. Foster
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780600340898
  • Category : English fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 430

We Played the Game

1994-04-07
We Played the Game

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  • Author: Danny Peary
  • Publisher: Hyperion Books
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Sports & Recreation
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 678

This incredible gathering of first-hand remembrances brings a fascinating and enlightening new perspective to the period of baseball's greatest peak and ultimate turning point--when bigotry and exploitation still ran rampant among the clubs and the sport was irrevocably being changed into a business. 100 photos.

Players at the Game of People

1980
Players at the Game of People

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  • Author: John Brunner
  • Publisher: Del Rey
  • ISBN: 9780345292353
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 219

Godwin Harpinshield decides to defy the mysterious alien powers that have provided him with every luxury in return for vicarious adventure

The Game Players

2020-05-18
The Game Players

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  • Author: Sarah Delaney
  • Publisher: Paragon Publishing
  • ISBN: 1782227539
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 162

“Bring the squirty cream sexy.” Here we go again, Amelie thinks, another wild proposition – but this one is from Dan, the new fiancé of her old school friend Katie. Amelie holds her nose and puffs out her cheeks to stop breathing as she reads back the crazy conversation she has just had with Dan. She met him on a recently joined dating site, even though he was engaged to her friend! It is just the beginning of what Amelie is to encounter on the Deep Connections dating site her brother Toby told her to try after he had been very successful on it. Amelie decides to rope in her best friend Lottie, who is all for playing these guys at their own games. Amelie and Lottie now embark on a wild farrago to annihilate the outrageous guys who cross their paths.

The Game Players of Slaithwaite

2006-01-06
The Game Players of Slaithwaite

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  • Author: Denis Hellewell
  • Publisher: Author House
  • ISBN: 1467000175
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 278

Wolf spiders chasing clowns in the heather, rats running in the maze, townboys gaming at the museum, Americans invading Nant Saras. It was like living in an early Spielberg movie one of the classics, Harry Potter and the Temple of Doom or the Mattress perhaps? Not that any of us ever saw ourselves as a hero. It''s a long time since we saw one of those films, even though they play endlessly on the net. Everything is on the net, all the facts and fictions. Like that rubbish about Napoleon, inventing corned beef, the trouble that got us into. What did we know? We were just kids from the academy.

The Game-Players of Titan

1992
The Game-Players of Titan

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  • Author: Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0679740651
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

Having just lost Berkeley and his wife in a game of Bluff, a bizarre game that has become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of Earth, Pete Garden prepares to play his next opponent, who isn't even human, for stakes that are much higher

The Complete Wordbook for Game Players

2004
The Complete Wordbook for Game Players

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  • Author: Mike Baron
  • Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781402709470
  • Category : Games & Activities
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 344

Lovers of Scrabble[registered] and other language-based games will boost their chances to win with these huge, incredibly thorough word lists. Study it to increase your vocabulary, especially of words with hard-to-use J, Q, X, and Z; to understand the different letter combinations that frequently come up; and to get more hooks, those letters that can extend words already on the board for extra points. There's a cheat sheet that includes 2 and 3 letter words and their hooks; vowel dumps; and more. Load up on vowel-heavy words, including ones with multiple i and u. Find out which short words don't take s endings, or which finish in a surprise s. Get the best of the bingos, as well as alphagrams. The introduction comes from World Scrabble[registered] Champion Brian Cappelletto.

Professional Online Game Players as New Media Workers, digital original edition

2014-01-10
Professional Online Game Players as New Media Workers, digital original edition

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  • Author: Dal Yong Jin
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • ISBN: 0262316382
  • Category : Computers
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

In South Korea, online gaming is a cultural phenomenon. Games are broadcast on television, professional gamers are celebrities, and youth culture is often identified with online gaming. This BIT examines the working conditions of professional gamers in the high-pressure world of the Korean online gaming industry.