Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister; the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world - of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over and fades from view.
When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that moment. The spark is immediate, and together they get to work on what they love - making games to delight, challenge and immerse players, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives. Their collaborations make them superstars.
This is the story of the perfect worlds Sadie and Sam build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. Fame. Duplicity. Tragedy.
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Before Mazer invented himself as Mazer, he was Samson Mazer, and before he was Samson Mazer, he was Samson Masur - a change of two letters that transformed him from a nice, ostensibly Jewish boy to a Professional Builder of Worlds - and for most of his youth, he was S.A.M on the hall of fame of his grandfather's Donkey Kong machine, but mainly Sam. 1
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(@ChattoBooks, 14 July 2022, ebook, 383 pages, #ARC from the publisher via # NetGalley)
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This is a new author for me. I knew I wanted to read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow when I read the blurb. I'm a gamer so this appealed to the geek in me. I enjoyed the book a lot. I liked the way the book explores the friendship between Sam and Sadie. It really warmed my heart. The geek in me loved all the video game references. I laughed a lot reading this but there are some sombre, almost heart-breaking moments as well.
