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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
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Copyright
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Copyright © 2015 by Austin Grossman
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