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Press Start to Play
| Author: | John Joseph Adams Daniel H. Wilson |
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Vintage, 2015 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Near-Future Virtual Reality Light/Humorous SF |
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Synopsis
IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE!
TAKE THIS.
You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide.
From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these twenty-six stories play with our notion of what video games can be - and what they can become - in smart and singular ways. With a foreword from Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One,Press Start to Play includes work from: Daniel H. Wilson, Charles Yu, Hiroshi Sakurazaka, S.R. Mastrantone, Charlie Jane Anders, Holly Black, Seanan McGuire, Django Wexler, Nicole Feldringer, Chris Avellone, David Barr Kirtley,T.C. Boyle, Marc Laidlaw, Robin Wasserman, Micky Neilson, Cory Doctorow, Jessica Barber, Chris Kluwe, Marguerite K. Bennett, Rhianna Pratchett, Austin Grossman, Yoon Ha Lee, Ken Liu, Catherynne M. Valente, Andy Weir, and Hugh Howey.
Your inventory includes keys, a cell phone, and a wallet. What would you like to do?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Foreword - Ernest Cline
- Introduction - John Joseph Adams
- God Mode - short story by Daniel H. Wilson
- NPC - short story by Charles Yu
- Respawn - short story by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (translated by Nathan Collins)
- Desert Walk - short story by S.R. Mastrantone
- Rat Catcher's Yellows - short story by Charlie Jane Anders
- 1Up - short story by Holly Black
- Survival Horror - short story by Seanan McGuire
- REAL - short story by Django Wexler
- Outliers - short story by Nicole Feldringer
- - short story by Chris Avellone
- Save Me Plz - short story by David Barr Kirtley (reprint)
- The Relive Box - novelette by T.C. Boyle (reprint)
- Roguelike - short story by Marc Laidlaw
- All of the People in Your Party Have Died - novelette by Robin Wasserman
- RECOIL! - short story by Micky Neilson
- Anda's Game - novelette by Cory Doctorow (reprint)
- Coma Kings - short story by Jessica Barber (reprint)
- Stats - short story by Marguerite K. Bennett
- Please Continue - short story by Chris Kluwe
- Creation Screen - short story by Rhianna Pratchett
- The Fresh Prince of Gamma World - short story by Austin Grossman
- Gamer's End - short story by Yoon Ha Lee
- The Clockwork Soldier - short story by Ken Liu (reprint)
- Killswitch - short story by Catherynne M. Valente (reprint)
- Twarrior - short story by Andy Weir
- Select Character - short story by Hugh Howey
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