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Fictional Fun & Games
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August 2000
Compiled by Mary Rindfleisch
of Ridgefield (CT) Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
| AUTHOR | TITLE | GAME |
| The Mighty Pawns (Video) | Chess anthology
| | Altman, Linda | Checkmate Julie | Chess |
| Anderson, Poul | The Saturn Game | Role-playing games |
| Anthony, Piers | Apprentice Adept series, esp. earlier books (Split Infinity,
The Blue Adept, Juxtaposition) "The Great Games", | a trial of physical and
mental games by which a serf can become a citizen |
| Anthony, Piers | Steppe | Roleplaying games
| | Arrabal, Fernando | The Tower Struck by Lightning | Chess |
| Asprin, Robert Lynn | Little Myth Marker | Poker |
| Banks, Iain | Player of Games | Hero beats everyone in a series of endless games
(SF)
| | Bard, Benedict | The Black Queen | Chess |
| Bennet, Rick | King of a Small World | Poker |
| Blanc, Nero | Crossword Murder | Crossword puzzles |
| Blanc, Nero | Two Down | Crossword puzzles |
| Boccaccio | The Decameron | Story-telling game |
| Bochak, John | Gamemaster | Chess |
| Boucher, Rita | Miss Gabriel's Gambit | Chess |
| Brett, Simon | Christmas Crimes at Puzzel Manor | Crossword puzzles |
| Brunner, John | Squares of the City | Chess |
| Brunner, John | Players at the Game of People |
| Bukofzer, Maxwell | Sherlock Holmes series | Chess |
| Burroughs, Edgar | Rice Chessman of Mars Chess |
| Byatt, A.S. | The Game | Role-playing game |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender's Game | Computer games |
| Card, Orson Scott | Lost Boys | Video games |
| Carleton, Henry Guy | The Thompson Street Poker Club | Poker |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass | Cards & Chess |
| Chaucer | The Canterbury Tales | Story-telling game |
| Chesbro, George | King's Gambit | Chess |
| Chesterton, G. K. | "The Flying Stars" in The Innocence of Father Brown Harlequinade |
| Christie, Agatha | Cards on the Table | Bridge |
| Christie, Agatha | The Big Four | Chess |
| Cohen, Larry & Liz Davis | Bridge Below the Belt | Bridge |
| Condon, Richard | The Manchurian Candidate | Solitaire |
| Coover, Robert | The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Hilary Waugh
Proprietor | Board games |
| Delman, David | The Last Gambit | Chess |
| Dick, Philip K. | Time out of Joint | Word games |
| Doyle, A.C. | "The Musgrave Ritual" in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | Chess |
| Dunnett, Dorothy | Lymond series, esp. Pawn in Frankincense | Chess |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Kipper's Game | Computer games |
| "Ex-Private X" aka Alfred M. Burrage | "Smee" in various anthologies | Hide and seek |
| Farber, Erica | Kiss of the Mermaid | Chess |
| Foster, Alan Dean | The Last Starfighter | Video games |
| Gaarder, Jostein | Solitaire Mystery | Cards |
| Gardner, John E; Fleming, Ian; Benson, Raymond | Various James Bond books | Baccarrat |
| Garrow, Simon | The Amazing Adventure of Dan, the Pawn | Chess |
| Gerrold, David | Chess with a Dragon | Chess |
| Gormley, Beatrice | The Magic Mean Machine | Chess |
| Granovetter, Matthew | Murder at the Bridge Table, The Bridge Team Murders | Bridge |
| Grant, Lynda | Vampire Bytes | Computer game/live action role-playing |
| Greeley, Andrew | The God Game | Video games |
| Hale, Lucretia P. | The Queen of the Red Chessmen | Chess |
| Hall, Adam | Hugo Bishop mysteries | Chess |
| Hall, Katy | My Secret Life | Chess |
| Hall, Parnell | Clue for the Puzzle Lady | Crossword puzzles |
| Hansen, Brooks | The Chess Garden | Chess |
| Harper, Piers | Checkmate at Chess City | Chess |
| Hautman, Pete | Bad Beat | Poker |
| Hautman, Pete | Stone Cold | Poker |
| Hehl, Eileen | Playing Games | Chess |
| Heinlein, Robert | Farnham's Freehold | Bridge |
| Hesse, Hermann | Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game |
| Heydt, Dorothy J. | A Point of Honor | Computer games/VCR |
| Heyer, Georgette | Duplicate Death | Bridge |
| Hochberg, Burt (editor) | The 64-Square Looking Glass | Chess anthology |
| Hogan, James P. | Giant's Star | Crossword puzzles |
| Holt, Tom | Who's Afraid of Beowulf | Role-playing games |
| Ipcar, Dahlov | The Warlock of Night | Chess |
| Jackson, Anita | Deadly Game | Chess |
| Jaffe, Rona | Mazes and Monsters | D&D-type role-playing game |
| Jessup, Richard | The Cincinnati Kid | Poker |
| Jones, Dianna Wynne | The Homeward Bounders | Multi-reality board game |
| Kakonis, Tom | Double Down | Poker |
| Kawabata, Yasunari | Master of Go Go |
| Keyes, Frances Parkinson | The Chess Players | Chess |
| King, Stephen | Hearts in Atlantis |
| Kotzwinkle, William | Game of Thirty | Ancient Egyptian board game |
| Kraus, Robert | Mort the Sport | Chess |
| Krich, Rochelle | Fair Game | Monopoly |
| Leiber, Fritz | ChangeWar story | Chess |
| Leiber, Fritz | "The 64-Square Madhouse" in The IF Reader of Science Fiction, A
Pail of Air, and The Leiber Chronicles | Chess |
| Leiber, Fritz | "Gonna Roll the Bones" in Dangerous Visions and The Leiber
Chronicles | Dice |
| Levy, Elizabeth | The Computer that Said Steal Me | Chess |
| Maron, Margaret | The Right Jack | Cribbage |
| Masters, Zeke | Western series about a gambler: Stacked Decks Long Odds, Etc. | Poker |
| Maurenseig, Paolo | Luneberg Variation | Chess |
| May, Jesse | Shut Up and Deal | Poker |
| Middleton, Thomas | A Game at Chess (a drama) | Chess |
| Moody, Susan | Cassandra Swann mystery series | Bridge |
| Moyes, Patricia | Six-Letter Word for Death | Crossword puzzles |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | The Defense | Chess |
| Neville, Katherine | The Eight | Chess |
| Niven, Larry & Steve Barnes | Dream Park, California Voodoo Game, Barsoom Project
| Role-playing games |
| Norton, Andre | Quag Keep | Role-playing games |
| Padgett, Lewis (aka Henry Kuttner) | "Chessboard Planet" in Tomorrow and
Tommorow, and the Fairy Chessmen | Chess |
| Pavic, Milorad | Landscape Painted with Tea | Crossword puzzle |
| Perez-Reverte, Arturo | The Flanders Panel | Chess |
| Peyton, Richard (ed.) | Sinister Gambits | Chess anthology |
| Powers, Tim | Last Call | Poker |
| Pratchett, Terry | Only You Can Save Mankind | Computer games |
| Presberg, Shirley | Death by Contract | Bridge |
| Preston, Caroline | Lucy Crocker 2.0 | Computer games |
| Rendell, Ruth | One across, Two Down | Crossword Puzzles |
| Resnicow, Herbert | Mystery series | Crossword puzzles |
| Robinson, Nancy K. | Countess Veronica | Chess |
| Rosenberg, Joel | Guardians of the Flame series | War games |
| Ryan, Conall | House of Cards | Poker |
| Saberhagen, Fred & Joan (ed) | Pawn to Infinity | Chess anthology |
| Sayers, Dorothy L. | "The Interesting Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will" in
Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories | Crossword puzzles |
| Sayers, Dorothy L. | Have His Carcase | Code-breaking |
| Shura, Mary Francis | The Josie Gambit | Chess |
| Simmons, Dan | Carrion Comfort | Chess |
| Sleator, William | Interstellar Pig | Role-playing games |
| Smith, D.A. | The Game: A Story in Words & Pictures | Poker |
| Snodgrass, Melinda | Queen's Gambit Declined | Chess (very metaphorically) |
| Stewart, Sean | Galveston | Poker & others |
| Stout, Rex | Gambit | Chess |
| Stryker, Dev | End Game |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary | Chess-dream in a Garden | Chess |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club | Mah johng & chess |
| Tepper, Sheri | King's Blood Four, Necromancer Nine, Wizard's Eleven | Chess |
| Tevis, Walter | Queen's Gambit | Chess |
| Trumble, Alfred | The Mott Street Poker Club | Poker |
| Truzzi, Marcello (editor) | Chess in Literature Chess stories |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | Jumanji | Imaginary adventure board game |
| Vernon, Roger Lee | "The Chess Civilization" in The Space Frontiers | Chess |
| Walker, Hugh | War-Gamer's World | Role-playing games |
| Waterhouse, Jane | Playing for Keeps | Monopoly |
| Watson, Ian | Queenmagic, Kingmagic | Parallel worlds based on chess, Monopoly,
snakes & ladders & other games |
| Wentworth, K.D. | The Imperium Game | Computer games/VR |
| Whitney, Phyllis | Hunter's Green | Chess |
| Williams, Kit | Masquerade Book | itself is a puzzle |
| Zweig, Stefan | The Royal Game and other Stories | Chess |
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