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Press Start to Play

Stories

Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams

2015·507 pages

Fantasy Literary Fiction

eerie hidden world short stories urban fantasy

A groundbreaking anthology of short stories from 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.

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Press Start to Play

Stories

Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams

Year

2015

Pages

507

Fantasy Literary Fiction

Tags

eerie hidden world short stories urban fantasy

Description

A groundbreaking anthology of short stories from 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.

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