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ITā€™S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS.
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You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctiveĀ 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 questā€¦

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I happened to see this short story collection with the foreword by Ernest Cline at my local bookstore.Ā All of the stories are somehow video game-related. Some of the stories I cannot get out of my head.

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1UpĀ  by Holly Black is about the bond you can create with gamers youā€™ve never met in person.

Oh, sure, there are stories by Andy Weir and Hugh Howey asā€¦

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