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Jul. 12th, 2011 11:01 amBecause once was not enough: more Sheri S. Tepper nostalgia reading of WTF!
The True Game (it's a trilogy, but I had it in one volume so I think of it as one) follows a teenaged boy named Peter in a world that's structured like a D&D game: when they start to develop powers after leaving school, everyone gets a cool classification like Necromancer or Priestess or Dragon, acquires a nifty new costume to go along with their title, and jaunts around getting involved in highly structured battle sequences according to their +10 power of flight or +5 power of charisma. This is actually a lot of fun to read about, which is probably why I had fond memories of this trilogy!
About halfway through the first book Peter acquires the deus ex machina ability to acquire other people's powers. This, along with his hilarious sulky haplessness and bad habit of trustingly following around sketchy older men, means that for the rest of the book I could not help but picture him like this:
( Book 1: In Which Peter BSODs )
( Book 2: In which OH SHERI TEPPER NO )
( Book 3: In Which The Master Plan Is Revealed (To Be Ridiculous) )
The True Game (it's a trilogy, but I had it in one volume so I think of it as one) follows a teenaged boy named Peter in a world that's structured like a D&D game: when they start to develop powers after leaving school, everyone gets a cool classification like Necromancer or Priestess or Dragon, acquires a nifty new costume to go along with their title, and jaunts around getting involved in highly structured battle sequences according to their +10 power of flight or +5 power of charisma. This is actually a lot of fun to read about, which is probably why I had fond memories of this trilogy!
About halfway through the first book Peter acquires the deus ex machina ability to acquire other people's powers. This, along with his hilarious sulky haplessness and bad habit of trustingly following around sketchy older men, means that for the rest of the book I could not help but picture him like this:
( Book 1: In Which Peter BSODs )
( Book 2: In which OH SHERI TEPPER NO )
( Book 3: In Which The Master Plan Is Revealed (To Be Ridiculous) )
