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# The Game-Players of Titan

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## Customer Reviews

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    Middle-Range Philip K. Dick, but Worthwhile
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 12, 2014*

I am an avid fan of Philip K. Dick and I see each novel or story as part of a great oeuvre of a brilliant and immensely creative mind.  That said, “Game Players of Titan” is probably of middling quality.  The story depicts a post-apocalyptic world dominated by a silicone-based life form from Titan called “vugs.”  Their invasion was facilitated by devastating planetary war involving the use of “Henkel Radiation” by Red China, which reduced earth’s population and sterilized much of the remainder.  A couple that is able to conceive a child has gotten “lucky.”Humans now occupy their time in a game called “Bluff.” Winners not only acquire property but other people’s spouses.  Pete Garden, the protagonist, owns large amounts of property.  However, at the beginning of the story he has not only lost an area of prime real estate but also his wife.  The quality of marital relationships is judged by how well the partners succeed at Bluff together.  Pete also suffers from depression and a preoccupation with suicide.The story involves the mysterious murder of an infamous “Bindman” (player and property owner), Pete’s unexpected fatherhood, and the culminating contest between humans and the gambling-addicted vugs; the stakes being the vugs’ withdrawal from Earth or the replacement of the human players with simulacra.There is, as in every Dick novel, there is the never-ending conflict between appearance and reality, and moments in which reality dissolves into its fundamental, frightening “Abgrund” (abyss).This is not one of the Philip K. Dick novels I would read multiple times, such as “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” “Ubik,” or “Now Wait for Last Year,” but any of his novels and stories is both a challenge and a pleasure to read.  As with the greatest writers, his style and imagination are one of a kind.

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    An enjoyable if light read
  

*by D***2 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 18, 2016*

I love almost everything I've ever read by Philip K Dick, and The Game-Players of Titan is no exception.  This book features a number of things Dick often used when writing:  aliens, psychic powers, drugs, altered consciousness, and a bleak future.  What it didn't seem to feature, and what I often look for in Dick's writings, is a thought provoking question about the nature of human existence.  For example, A Scanner Darkly explores the use of recreational drugs and gives the reader an opportunity to reflect on addicts and how they live.  In this novel, it felt like Dick just wanted to tell a story with his characteristic quirks and style.  So if you like Dick and feel you'd enjoy reading something a bit less heavy than his usual works, check this one out.

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    Crazy Stuff
  

*by S***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2012*

I've got to rank this in the lower half of Dick's novels, as the last third of the book feels rushed and it doesn't come off as very coherent (even in comparison to his other dense mind-benders).  But, the book has its charms.  It's got plenty of ideas per square inch, the usual quota of highly imaginative scenarios and incisive moments, and a vivid assortment of characters and alien life forms.  It resembles "Solar Lottery" a bit in its unpredictable plot turns (as well as in being nominally centered around some large-scale version of a game - TV Quiz Shows in the earlier case, and a complex board game resembling Monopoly in this case).  It also reminds me a bit of "Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldridge" in terms of what Sutin calls Eldridge's "tight plotting" and "hairpin turns".

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