Press Start to Play

Hi All! Very excited to announce the Press Start to Play anthology, a video game-themed series of short stories which I contributed to. See the press release below, and for pre orders, go here:

http://www.amazon.com/Press-Start-Pla...

NEWS: PRESS START TO PLAY Cover & TOC Reveal

Now that Kotaku has made the big reveal for us, I'm free to also share the final cover, (not final) cover copy, and table of contents for PRESS START TO PLAY, a mostly-original anthology of stories about and inspired by video games I edited (with Daniel H. Wilson) for Vintage. It's forthcoming in August 2015, but you can pre-order it now.

COVER:

Press Start to Play

COVER COPY (not final):

Achievement unlocked! In the spirit of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, here are twenty-six works of fiction that put video games---and the people who play them---in the spotlight. Whether these authors are tackling the humble pixelated coin-op arcade games of the 70s and 80s, or the vivid, immersive form of entertainment that abounds today, you'll never look at phrases like "save point," "first-person shooter," "dungeon crawl," "pwned," or "kill screen," in quite the same way again.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword—Ernest Cline
Introduction—John Joseph Adams
God Mode—Daniel H. Wilson
NPC—Charles Yu
Respawn—Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Desert Walk—S.R. Mastrantone
Rat Catcher's Yellows—Charlie Jane Anders
1Up—Holly Black
Survival Horror—Seanan McGuire
REAL—Django Wexler
Outliers—Nicole Feldringer
—Chris Avellone
Save Me Plz—David Barr Kirtley (reprint)
The Relive Box—T.C. Boyle (reprint)
Roguelike—Marc Laidlaw
All of the People in Your Party Have Died—Robin Wasserman
RECOIL!—Micky Neilson
Anda’s Game—Cory Doctorow (reprint)
Coma Kings—Jessica Barber (reprint)
Stats—Marguerite K. Bennett
Please Continue—Chris Kluwe
Creation Screen—Rhianna Pratchett
The Fresh Prince of Gamma World—Austin Grossman
Gamer’s End—Yoon Ha Lee
The Clockwork Soldier—Ken Liu (reprint)
Killswitch—Catherynne M. Valente (reprint)
Twarrior—Andy Weir
Select Character—Hugh Howey