How long does it take to read The Player of Games?
The Player of Games by Iain Banks takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Culture series
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About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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 - a very possibly his death.
Subjects: Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Computer games
