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Daniel H. Wilson is a
New York Times
bestselling author and coeditor of the
Press Start to Play
anthology. He earned a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he also received master’s degrees in robotics and in machine learning. He has published more than a dozen scientific papers, holds four patents, and has written eight books. Wilson has written for
Popular Science
,
Wired
, and
Discover
, as well as online venues such as MSNBC.com,
Gizmodo
,
Lightspeed
, and Tor.com. In 2008, Wilson hosted
The Works
, a television series on the History Channel that uncovered the science behind everyday stuff. His books include
How to Survive a Robot Uprising
,
A Boy and His Bot
,
Amped
, and
Robopocalypse
(the film adaptation of which is slated to be directed by Steven Spielberg). He lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. Find him on Twitter
@danielwilsonPDX
.
John Joseph Adams is the series editor of
Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy,
published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is also the editor of many other bestselling anthologies, such as
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination
,
Armored
,
Brave New Worlds
,
Wastelands
, and
The Living Dead
. Recent and forthcoming projects include
Loosed Upon the World
,
Robot Uprisings
,
Dead Man’s Hand
,
Operation Arcana, Wastelands 2
, and The Apocalypse Triptych, which consists of
The End Is Nigh
,
The End Is Now
, and
The End Has Come
. Called “the reigning king of the anthology world” by Barnes & Noble, Adams is a winner of the Hugo Award (for which he has been nominated eight times) and is a six-time World Fantasy Award finalist. Adams is also the editor and publisher of the digital magazines
Lightspeed
and
Nightmare
and is a producer for Wired.com’s
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy
podcast. Find him on Twitter
@johnjosephadams
.
A Boy and His Bot
Amped
Bro-Jitsu
How to Build a Robot Army
How to Survive a Robot Uprising
The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame
(with Anna C. Long)
Mayday! Deep Space
(for iOS)
Robopocalypse
Robogenesis
Robot Uprisings
(coeditor)
Where’s My Jetpack
Armored
Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy
Brave New Worlds
By Blood We Live
Dead Man’s Hand
The End Is Nigh
The End Is Now
The End Has Come
Epic: Legends of Fantasy
Federations
HELP FUND MY ROBOT ARMY!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Lightspeed Magazine
The Living Dead
The Living Dead 2
Loosed Upon the World
The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination
Nightmare Magazine
Operation Arcana
Other Worlds Than These
Oz Reimagined
Robot Uprisings
Seeds of Change
Under the Moons of Mars
Wastelands
Wastelands 2
The Way of the Wizard
A VINTAGE ORIGINAL, AUGUST 2015
Copyright © 2015 by Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams
Foreword copyright © 2015 by Ernest Cline
Introduction copyright © 2015 by John Joseph Adams
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., Toronto.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC
Permissions acknowledgments can be found at the end of the book.
The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Press start to play / edited by Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams.
pages cm
1. Video games—Fiction. 2. Video gamers—Fiction. 3. Virtual reality—Fiction. 4. Science fiction, American. I. Wilson, Daniel H. (Daniel Howard), 1978– editor. II. Adams, John Joseph, 1976– editor.
PS374.V54P74 2015 813'.010839—dc23 2015008526
Vintage Books Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781101873304
eBook ISBN 9781101873311
Adams author photograph © Will Clark
Wilson author photograph © Ryan J. Anfuso
Cover Design by Mark Abrams
Pixel fireballs © derGriza/Shutterstock
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