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Re:Player of Games by automatic6131 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @04:45AM (#29482807)
I always imagine the board game as essentially being SM's Civilisation but really, really good in an indescribable way - with some card games inbetween.
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Re:Player of Games by 0_gravitas on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @09:30AM (#29485089)
I believe Banks himself said that he used to play Civ and took some inspiration from it
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Re:Player of Games by bduerst on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @11:12AM (#29486508)
Definitely for his later books, but Player of Games came out three years before the first Sid Meier's Civ game.

What cool is that Paradox's Stellaris, a civ-in-space game, definitely takes pages from Ian's Culture series.

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