The author of, Soon I Will Be Invincible, is back. This is his 400 page love story to the history of electronic gaming. It's about 4 high school students that get together for a computer class and from that, the world is changed. 
 Present day in the story is 1997/98 and it shares time with a series of vignettes set in the 80's that tells the backstory. It's VERY captivating reading, as I plowed through this thing in two sittings. 
 But, after it was all over, I felt a tad... empty. I think as a story, it has deep flaws and a lack of resolution. It offers a red herring or two early on that makes me think the novel will be going in one direction, but then it doesn't go that way. 
 So I'm left... confused, not thrilled with the ending, but still thinking that anyone who loves gaming should read this. 
 It did make me want to put down this game and pick up a copy of fictional games that Black Arts made. They do sound pretty awesome.