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The Game presents a speculative society in which conventional schooling has been replaced by immersive virtual reality simulations that allow participants to experience the full span of life—from infancy to final death—multiple times. The protagonist, a young player, navigates this digital world, learning and adapting through successive iterations of his existence. In his ultimate round, he confronts the possibility of altering reality itself, suggesting that the boundaries between game and authentic life may be far more porous than society believes.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Speculative Fiction/Speculative Fiction
Authors: Terry Schott
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