The Game

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Overview:

Title: The Game
Author: Neal Barrett, Jr.
Year: 1963
Type: Short Fiction

Variant Titles:

1971. Het spel

Editions/Publications:

Unknown. Amazing Stories, July 1963 (Unknown, Neal Barrett, Jr., Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.50, 132 pages, digest, MAGAZINE)
Unknown. Great Science Fiction, Fall 1968 (Unknown, Neal Barrett, Jr., Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 132 pages, digest, MAGAZINE)