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Press Start to Play | Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams
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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? From the Trade Paperback edition.
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milltruckle
Press Start to Play | Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams
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Mehso-so

The book contains multiple short stories by some bigger names in the gaming/tech industry. The first few are pretty bland and then it picks up a bit. The great thing about the short story aspect is that if you start reading one and you're not into it you can just skip to the next one. There are definitely some weird stories in here. Gives you some insight into how these people think, and it's creepy.

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MotionChickness
Press Start to Play | Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams
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My boyfriends brother/my coworker brought this in to work to share. It is a Compilation of video game based short stories by amazing authors! I only have time to read a couple, so I started with Holly Blacks story... and WOW. I am on the edge of my seat. Will be adding this book to my library soon so I can read the whole thing!

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jjmcgaffey
Press Start to Play | Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams

Not wonderful so far - most of the stories are making me go "What?!" at the end. And some of them are pure nasty. There are a few I've enjoyed, but not a lot - and the Seanan McGuire I got the book for is one I've read before (probably on her website). It's good, and fun, but not something new from her.