The Game-Players of Titan

The Game-Players of Titan by Dick, Philip K.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780679740650.

In this sardonically funny gem of speculative fiction, Philip K. Dick creates a novel that manages to be simultaneously unpredictable and perversely logical. Poor Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley. Hes also lost his wife, but hell get a new one as soon as he rolls a three. Its all part of the rules of Bluff, the game thats become a blinding obsession for the last inhabitants of the planet Earth. But the rules are about to change--drastically and terminally--because Pete Garden will be playing his next game against an opponent who isnt even human, for stakes that are a lot higher than Berkeley.