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

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.