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The Game Players of Titan
By Philip K. Dick
Originally published in 1963
Trade paperback published by Vintage
Currently available
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Plot Summary:
In this sardonically funny gem of speculative fiction,
Philip K. Dick creates a novel that manages to be
simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical.
Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. He's also
lost his wife, but he'll get a new one as soon as he
rolls a three. It's all part of the rules of Bluff,
the game that's become a blinding obsession for the
last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules
are about to change--drastically and
terminally--because Pete Garden will be playing his
next game against an opponent who isn't even human,
for stakes that are a lot higher than Berkeley.
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Reviews
"The book is readable and interesting. There are a number of nice minor touches, such as the artificially intelligent cars with attitude. And the character of Pete Garden, a fairly typical Dick protagonist, neurotic to the point of suicide attempts but basically decent, is nicely enough portrayed."
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Review by Rich Horton, SFSite.com, 2001. |
"The Game Players of Titan is very much a classic Philip K. Dick novel. It contains all the elements that we have come to expect; post-apocalyptic setting, self destructive male characters, confusion as to what is real, and so on, not to mention weird, trippy, hallucinations which are plentiful and important in this novel. "
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Review by Iain Mathieson, philipkdickfans.com, 2001. |
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