The Game-Players of Titan is a 1963 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Pete Garden, the protagonist, is one of several residents who own large swathes of property in a depopulated, post-apocalyptic future world. These residents are organized in groups of regular competitors who play a board …
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The Game-Players of Titan is a 1963 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Pete Garden, the protagonist, is one of several residents who own large swathes of property in a depopulated, post-apocalyptic future world. These residents are organized in groups of regular competitors who play a board game called "Bluff". These contestants (or "Bindmen") stake their property, marriages and future status as eligible game players on its outcomes. Pete also experiences bipolar disorder, which may adversely affect his competence as a Game participant.
The Game is administered by amorphous, silicon-based aliens from Titan, Saturn's largest satellite. These creatures, known as the vugs, are obsessed with gambling. In addition, the Game's exogamy helps to promote human fertility after the devastation of global warfare, after satellite-borne "Henkel Radiation" weaponry from Red China sterilized much of the Earth's population. The vugs exert hegemony over Earth but do not occupy it as such. Instead, it is visualised as a paternalistic relationship. Moreover, while the vugs are telepaths, they do not allow the use of human telepathy or precognition within the context of the Game. The vugs are also involved within human society, using induced hallucination to maintain the semblance of human form. They also perpetuate the charade through the use of physical human shells or simulacra.
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The game-players of Titan
223 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1996 by Voyager.
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- 978-0-00-648249-9Copied ISBN!
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- 59649504
The Game-Players of Titan
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English language
Published March 17, 2009 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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- 978-0-307-49562-4Copied ISBN!
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- 501190507
Los jugadores de Titán
237 pages
Spanish language
Published March 17, 2017
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- 978-607-07-4152-4Copied ISBN!
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- 1013548195
The Game-players of Titan
188 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1974 by White Lion Publishers.
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- 978-0-85617-577-0Copied ISBN!
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- 3200306
The game-players of Titan.
224 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1991 by Grafton.
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- 978-0-586-20971-4Copied ISBN!
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- 60066124
The game-players of Titan
215 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1992 by Vintage Books.
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- 978-0-679-74065-0Copied ISBN!
The Game-players of Titan
157 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1977 by Sphere.
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- 978-0-7221-2961-6Copied ISBN!
The game-players of Titan.
188 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1963 by Ace Books.
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- 978-4-412-73100-4Copied ISBN!
The Game-players of Titan
157 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1969 by Sphere.
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- 978-0-7221-2957-9Copied ISBN!
Les Joueurs de Titan
255 pages
French language
Published March 17, 2014 by J'ai Lu.
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- 978-2-290-03364-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 897656449
The game players of Titan
191 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1979 by Gregg Press.
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- 978-0-8398-2482-4Copied ISBN!
The Game-players of Titan (Voyager Classics)
Paperback, 224 pages
Published Aug. 20, 2001 by Voyager.
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- 978-0-00-711588-4Copied ISBN!
The game-players of Titan
English language
Published March 17, 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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- 978-0-547-57243-7Copied ISBN!
Theg ame-players of Titan
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Published March 17, 1992 by Vintage Books.
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The Game-Players of Titan
Published March 17, 1963 by Ace.
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- 978-0-441-06251-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 421940304
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