This Is Not a Game, Walter Jon Williams
This Is Not a Game, Walter Jon Williams
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This Is Not a Game

Author: Walter Jon Williams

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 11 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/12/2012


Synopsis

Once upon a time, there were four of them. And though each was good at a number of things, all of them were very good at games... Dagmar is a game designer trapped in Jakarta in the middle of a revolution. The city is tearing itself apart around her and she needs to get out. Her boss Charlie has his own problems -- 4.3 billion of them, to be precise, hidden in an off-shore account. Austin is the businessman -- the VC. He's the one with the plan and the one to keep the geeks in line. BJ was there from the start, but while Charlie's star rose, BJ sank into the depths of customer service. He pads his hours at the call-center slaying on-line orcs, stealing your loot, and selling it on the internet. But when one of them is gunned down in a parking lot, the survivors become players in a very different kind of game. Caught between the dangerous worlds of the Russian Mafia and international finance, Dagmar must draw on all her resources -- not least millions of online gamers-- to track down the killer. In this near-future thriller, Walter Jon Williams weaves a pulse-pounding tale of intrigue, murder, and games where you don't get an extra life.

About Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams is the author of thirty volumes of fiction, in addition to works in film, television, comics, and the gaming field. Williams has appeared on the bestseller lists of the Times and the New York Times. He is a world traveler, scuba diver, and a black belt in Kenpo Karate. He has twice been awarded the Nebula Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on August 11, 2023

Catching up with four people that were 'gamers' together 15 years previously - one, Charlie is a mega tycoon; Austin is a successful Venture Capitalist staked by Charlie; BJ was cast off and now works at a crap job; and the heroine of the piece, Dagmar, who's stranded in Indonesia during what is beg......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on October 14, 2018

By page 60 I knew that my interest, which had waned earlier, wasn't coming back. I don't know maybe I'm too old or the wrong generation for this book. Told from points of view varying from "Dagmar" (our game designer protagonist) to the people "back at the office" and of course, the people on the in......more

Goodreads review by Alan on August 06, 2010

This Is Not An Average Novel An intense near-future thriller that merges live-action role playing games with a realistic high-tech plot—this is one SF mystery that really works. Published almost simultaneously with Charles Stross' similar Halting State, it shares a number of general plot points—the i......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on September 23, 2021

I have no idea why I haven't read any Walter Jon Williams books before (or did I before Goodreads, which is the main way I remember what I've read?). This is good. It's a little like Neal Stephenson's REAMDE, which also combines gaming, running a software company, and real-life action. Or vice versa......more