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by Austin Grossman


  Austin Grossman 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 You and 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.

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  Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Welcome

  Epigraph

  Part OneChapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Part TwoChapter 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

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Part ThreeChapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Part FourChapter 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

  Chapter Forty

  Chapter Forty-One

  Chapter Forty-Two

  Chapter Forty-Three

  Chapter Forty-Four

  Chapter Forty-Five

  Chapter Forty-Six

  Afterword

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Also by Austin Grossman

  Newsletters

  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 © 2015 by Austin Grossman

  Author photograph by Marka Knight

  Cover design by Lauren Harms

  Cover photograph by Brian Gilbreath

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  ISBN 978-0-316-19850-9

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