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By: edited by Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9781101873304
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: American Science fiction; Virtual reality; Video games; Video gamers; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Vintage Original"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: God mode  -- Daniel H. Wilson; title: NPC  -- Charles Yu; title: Respawn  -- Hiroshi Sakurazaka; title: Desert walk  -- S.R. Mastrantone; title: Rat catcher's yellows  -- Charlie Jane Anders; title: 1UP  -- Holly Black; title: Survival horror  -- Seanan McGuire; title: Real  -- Django Wexler; title: Outliers  -- Nicole Feldringer; title: end game  -- Chris Avellone; title: Save me plz  -- David Barr Kirtley; title: Relive box  -- T.C. Boyle; title: Roguelike  -- Marc Laidlaw; title: All of the people in your party have died  -- Robin Wasserman; title: Recoil  -- Micky Neilson; title: Anda's game  -- Cory Doctorow; title: Coma kings  -- Jessica Barber; title: Stats  -- Marguerite K. Bennett; title: Please continue  -- Chris Kluwe; title: Creation screen  -- Rhianna Pratchett; title: Fresh prince of gamma world  -- Austin Grossman; title: Gamer's end  -- Yoon Ha Lee; title: Clockwork soldier  -- Ken Liu; title: Killswitch  -- Catherynne M. Valente; title: Twarrior  -- Andy Weir; title: Select character -- Hugh Howey.