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PRESS
START
TO
PLAY

Edited by Daniel H. Wilson and John Joseph Adams

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
.

www.danielhwilson.com

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
.

www.johnjosephadams.com

OTHER BOOKS BY DANIEL H. WILSON

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

ALSO EDITED BY JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS

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

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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