The Culture - a human / machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy.
The novel revolves around the Idiran-Culture War, and Banks plays on that theme by presenting various microcosms of that conflict. Perhaps surprisingly, especially since this is the first (published) Culture novel, its protagonist Bora Horza Gobuchul is actually an enemy of the Culture.
Las Vegas Weekly is a weekly newspaper with an emphasis on arts, entertainment and popular culture. The Weekly is the city's source for an utterly unique, combustible mix of embedded nightlife coverage, thoughtful arts and cultural criticism, sassy lifestyle features, provocative essays and edgy journalism. From the bottle-serviced tables of the latest ultra lounge to the front rows of the hottest concerts; wherever the movers are shaking, the Weekly is there, helping readers make sense of this crazy town.
Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored - what we eat is a marker of power, cultural capital, class, ethnic and racial identity. Bite Me considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles.
