You (Austin Grossman)

A team of eccentric young geniuses work for a small video game company, developing games based on the vision of the most eccentric, most brilliant of them all. Buried in the code, ported from system to system, is a bug that crops up occasionally and wreaks havoc before the game completely crashes. This is the story of where that bug came from and how it can be found and fixed. Even more, though, it is the story of what video games are and how they become so important. In each game there are characters and worlds to choose from, but at the core you are still you, and that core of you-ness can never got away. Do we want it to? What, after all, is the ultimate game? I liked this story, but didn't get as engaged in it as much as in Grossman's original novel (Soon I Will Be Invincible) which is much less realistic but somehow more real.