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"""The first in depth examination of games within literature, this book takes us on a critical journey through several well known examples, examining the potential that games have to reflect philosophical and cultural values within fiction, as well as their place as essential moments of reflection, thought and ideologies within literary writing."" --Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Professor of Game Studies, Staffordshire University, UK ""Gualeni and Fassone's brilliant volume provides a long-overdue analysis of the fascinating ways in which fictional games structure our understanding of fantastic storyworlds across different media. Their knowledgeable, affectionate, and compulsively readable study offers the reader tremendous insight into a compelling but largely overlooked topic."" --Dan Hassler-Forest, Media scholar, Utrecht University, The Netherlands ""Sitting at the intersection of cultural studies, philosophy, and games studies, Gualeni and Fassone provide an overview and preliminary taxonomy of how fictional games function across a range of media. Fictional Games thus opens important new directions in the study of such games, showing how they are more than mere narrative devices."" --Will Slocombe, Reader in English, University of Liverpool, UK"

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Stefano Gualeni is Associate Professor at the Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta, Malta. His recent publications include: Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools (2015) and Virtual Existentialism (2020). Riccardo Fassone is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Torino, Italy. His recent publications include: Every Game is an Island. Endings and Extremities in Video Games (Bloomsbury, 2017).

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