The Webs We Weave: The Player of Games
Mark Zuckerberg's " A Year of Books " offers an opportunity for considered dialog around a series of readings. To this point, the readings were mostly selected from the social sciences, although the book at hand represents an exception from that trend. For each book, I offer a commentary so as to participate in the dialog prompted by this reading series. To be honest, I have not read a work of science fiction in a very long time. In fact, the last would have been the last science fiction works would have been in the late 1990s, Mary Doria Russell's great The Sparrow and its sequel Children of God . It has been so long, I had forgotten how enjoyable science fiction can be! Mark Zuckerberg's latest selection is The Player of Games by the late Iain M. Banks . Banks, a Scottish author of fiction. science fiction, and non-fiction died in June of 2013. T he Player of Games , a 1988 work, is the second of nine works in the Culture Series . Wikipedia describes the...