Roman brilliant, addictive, intelligent, renewing the space opera. Lightsaber fan and cardboard decor dough go your way, this is a real fine and powerful literature. A later I still leading some bravura moments like the tranquility of the house Gurgeh on his home planet, the trip gigantic cargo space that refers to the schoolyard pseudo-worn ideas of most authors, and the game, learning the game and successive victories. It is a tour de force describe the conduct of the parties as if you were there, like playing ourselves, while only outlines the rules of the game have been mentioned. This is of course at any time to describe a realistic game but above all to describe what happens in the mind of a player, strategy, stress, thinking, cunning, tenacity ... Just for us to share this novel is a success. There is still the apocalyptic final scene, the general description of the world of Culture, smart drones and manipulative. To read urgently to a large bowl of intelligence and true SF literature into a coherent universe, thoughtful and not so harmless as it might seem. Quickly, I have one desire is to read "Form A War" and "The use of weapons"
