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Second novel in The Culture series of sci-fi novels by Iain M Banks, published in 1988. A competitive citizen of the Culture is blackmailed into travelling to a hostile alien civilization and playing the complex game 'Azad' that chooses their rulers.

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Mawhrin-Skel's personality shift and Gurgeh's mission purpose

So at the end of the book, it is revealed that But they're both so different from each other, that it makes me think that the blackmail situation was made up by Special Circumstances to persuade Gu …
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