Science fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Player of Games
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks is about power and empire, identity and performance, manipulation and free will. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
Read the summary → - Use of Weapons
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Iain M. Banks · Science fiction
Cheradenine Zakalwe is one of Special Circumstances' most effective agents — a man recruited from outside the Culture and deployed to fight and manipulate wars the Culture wishes to influence without visibly fighting.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
Read the summary → - Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
Read the summary → - The Art of War
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Sun Tzu · Philosophy
The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a general and strategist believed to have lived in the fifth century BCE.
Read the summary → - 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Arthur C. Clarke · Science fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey begins with prehistoric man-apes encountering a featureless black monolith that somehow catalyzes their cognitive leap from prey to hunter.
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