The Player of Games
Chapters - Iain M. Banks
Part: One: Culture Plate
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Part: Two: Imperium
The second section opens as Gurgeh arrives in the Azad empire and begins to understand what he has agreed to play. Azad is not a game - it is a civilisation encoded into a game, and losing means something different here than it does in the Culture.