PRESS START TO PLAY

This first-ever anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and video game titans who explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide. From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, these 26 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 by well-known authors including T.C. Boyle (whose story in this collection originally appeared in The New Yorker), Andy Weir (The Martian), Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles) and Hiroshi Sakurazaka (All You Need Is Kill, the basis for the Tom Cruise film Edge of Tomorrow) as well as by people better known for their work on video games, such as Marc Laidlaw (Half-Life), Chris Avellone (Fallout: New Vegas) and Micky Neilson (World of Warcraft). This brings a lot of diversity to the anthology in terms of how each piece approaches a story and builds momentum and it works brilliantly.