While The Player Sleeps
- Authors
- Tierney, Scott
- Publisher
- Acorn Books
- Tags
- dystopia , dictators , science fiction , fantasy , black mirror , alternate future , cities , urban , society , gaming , video games , short story , religion , government
- ISBN
- 9781789821864
- Date
- 2019-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.57 MB
- Lang
- en
While The Player Sleeps charts the story of a city where each and every inhabitant, as though the individual teeth of a single cog which drives a vast clockwork machine, functions selflessly for their one ultimate master:
THE PLAYER
For, as we would understand it, this is the city of the video game - the urban sandbox, an open world simulation, and the inhabitants are merely the actors upon a digitised stage.
Existing solely for the entertainment of HIM...