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Country United Kingdom Publication date August 1977 Pages 176 Originally published August 1977 Page count 176 Publisher DAW Books | 3.4/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN 978-0-87997-318-6 Genre Science Fiction Cover artist Don Maitz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Grand Wheel is the eighth science fiction novel by Barrington J. Bayley. The novel follows Cheyne Scarne, a professor of "randomatics", as he is selected by the eponymous organization (which holds a galactic monopoly on games of chance) to represent humanity in a card game with infinitely varying rules. The name of the main character appears to be a reference to John Scarne.
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Literary significance and reception
Rhys Hughes, in his survey of Bayley's work, described The Grand Wheel as an "entertaining gambling novel" with a "seedy and elegant" atmosphere. Colin Greenland, writing in Foundation 18, received the novel negatively, saying that it had been produced for the market and "would have been old in 1957".
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