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A NOVEL OF MYSTERY, VIDEOGAMES, AND THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE THEM, BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE.
When Russell joins Black Arts games, brainchild of two visionary designers
who were once his closest friends, he reunites with an eccentric crew of nerds hacking the frontiers of both technology and entertainment. In
part, he's finally given up chasing the conventional path that has
always seemed just out of reach. But mostly, he needs to know what
happened to Simon, the strangest and most gifted friend he ever lost,
who died under mysterious circumstances soon after Black Arts' breakout
hit.
Then Black Arts' revolutionary next-gen game is threatened
by a mysterious software glitch, and Russell finds himself in a race to
save his job, Black Arts' legacy, and the people he has grown to care
about. The bug is the first clue in a mystery leading back twenty years, through real and virtual worlds, corporate boardrooms and high school
computer camp, to a secret that changed a friendship and the history of
gaming. The deeper Russell digs, the more dangerous the glitch
appears - and soon, Russell comes to realize there's much more is at
stake than just one software company's bottom line.
Austin Grossman's debut novel Soon I Will Be Invincible announced the arrival of a singular, genre-defying talent "sure to please fans of Lethem and Chabon" (Playboy). With YOU, Grossman offers his most daring and most personal novel yet-a thrilling, hilarious, authentic portrait of the world of professional
game makers; and the story of how learning to play can save your life.
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Austin Grossman
Austin Grossman (born 1969) is a video game design consultant and the author of You and Soon I Will Be Invincible, which was nominated for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. His writing has appeared in Granta, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

