Press Start to Play
Book description
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…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Press Start to Play as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I happened to see this short story collection with the foreword by Ernest Cline at my local bookstore. All of the stories are somehow video game-related. Some of the stories I cannot get out of my head.
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