Dysmorphia's review of The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

Dysmorphia reviewed The Player of Games (Culture, #2) by Iain M. Banks

Iain M. Banks: The Player of Games (Culture, #2) (1997, HarperPrism)

The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, …

Review of 'The Player of Games (Culture, #2)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Reread:
I reread this book as comfort food because I remembered the line where Gurgeh, the protagonist, agrees that life is not fair, but we can try to make it more fair. It's wonderful to imagine a people like the Culture coming in dismantling an evil empire.

Original review:
This is the best of the three Banks novels I've read so far. It probably helps that I didn't find the protagonist to be unrealistically badass and yet at the same time sort of whiny (problems I had with Use of Weapons).