The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.28
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
If you liked the science fiction plot in The Player of Games (Culture, #2) by Iain M. Banks , here is a list of 18 books like this:
1. The Palace Of Eternity
By: Bob Shaw
3.80
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
'The planet Mnemosyne, surrounded by a lambent shell of tiny moon-fragments, was known throughout t… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
2. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
By: Iain M. Banks
4.28
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more
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- cultural
- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
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- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Escape is a commodity like anything else"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"Escape is a commodity like anything else."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
3. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
- fiction
- science fiction
- space
- audiobook
4. Chasm City
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has bee… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
- fiction
- science fiction
- space
- audiobook
5. The Mote in God's Eye
By: Larry Niven , Jerry Pournelle
3.58
Format: 448 pages, ebook
In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
6. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
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- speculative fiction
- space
- fantasy
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
7. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.08
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals in… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It’s easy to be led to the abyss."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
8. Pandora's Star
By: Peter F. Hamilton
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in d… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
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- science fiction
- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
9. The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
By: Dan Simmons
3.77
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far f… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
10. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
By: Dan Simmons
4.27
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
- fiction
- science fiction
- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You have to live to really know things, my love"-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
11. Redemption Ark
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the In… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
- fiction
- science fiction
- space
- audiobook
12. Pushing Ice
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.26
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
2057. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclearpowered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comet… read more
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13. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
By: Joe Haldeman
4.14
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
- fiction
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- space
- fantasy
"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
14. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
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- fantasy
- audiobook
"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
15. Children of Time
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more
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16. House of Suns
By: Alastair Reynolds
3.73
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a… read more
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17. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
By: Vernor Vinge
4.14
Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- space
- fantasy
"We're endangered by our own success."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
18. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.02
Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition
The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
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- speculative fiction
- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
19. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- space opera
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- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
20. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.19
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more
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- space opera
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- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
21. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.35
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more
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- space opera
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- novels
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- fantasy
- audiobook
