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Authors: Austin Grossman

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A
USTIN
G
ROSSMAN
is a video game design consultant who has worked on such games as
Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds, System Shock, Flight Unlimited, Trespasser: Jurassic Park, Clive Barker’s Undying, Deus Ex, Tomb Raider Legend, Epic Mickey,
and
Dishonored.
He is also the author of
Soon I Will Be Invincible,
which was nominated for the 2007 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. His writing has appeared in
Granta,
the
Wall Street Journal,
and the
New York Times.
He lives in Berkeley, California.

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Contents

Welcome

Dedication

Epigraph

PART I: THE ULTIMATE GAME

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

PART II: THE FIRST AGE OF THE WORLD

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

PART III: THE SECOND AGE OF THE WORLD

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

PART IV: THE THIRD AGE OF THE WORLD

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

PART V: CLANDESTINE, OR THE SPY WHO LOVED YOU

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

Chapter Forty-Two

Chapter Forty-Three

Chapter Forty-Four

Chapter Forty-Five

Chapter Forty-Six

PART VI: THE SOLAR AGE

Chapter Forty-Seven

Chapter Forty-Eight

Chapter Forty-Nine

PART VII: ENDGAME

Chapter Fifty

Chapter Fifty-One

A Selective Time Line of Video Game History

About the Author

Also by Austin Grossman

Newsletters

Copyright

Copyright

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2013 by Austin Grossman

Cover design by Kapo Ng

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