New Book: The Player of Games

I enjoy Ian Banks. I rather liked the Wasp Factory, finding it to be a rather fascinating portrait of a boy and his autonomous world.

I have never read any of the science fiction by the author (which is published under the name Ian M Banks) even though I have several of his books in my possession. Probably because everyone who is a raving fan says to start with The Player of Games. I managed to snag that book from Strand Books a few weeks ago and have begun to tuck into it.

So far I fear that this will be like Ender's Game but for middle age intellectuals but I'm only on page 30, so I have plenty of time to be pleasantly proven wrong.