{"id":107952,"date":"2025-05-17T03:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107952\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T03:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T03:06:13","slug":"top-5-books-about-video-games-by-author-jeanne-thornton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/107952\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 books about video games by author Jeanne Thornton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning author Jeanne Thornton\u2019s latest novel A\/S\/L is about video games, three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigissue.com\/tag\/lgbtq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">queer<\/a> friends and the code(s) they learn to survive. Who better to give us their top five books about video games?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/9500\/9781529115543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow<\/a> by Gabrielle Zevin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How can this not be first? I\u2019m moved by this story of creative friendship-as-ludography, especially the intricate period details worked into each capsule history-of-video-games setting, plus beautiful hidden Easter eggs (are the secret highways real?).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/9500\/9780241953198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Diamond Age<\/a> by Neal Stephenson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regarding an intelligent digital \u2018primer\u2019 that provides a personalised, gamified education \u2013 think Duolingo meets Castiglione \u2013 intended for a daughter of privilege, fallen into the hands of an outcast. Edtech engineers love this book.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/9500\/9781952177842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slug and Other Stories<\/a> by Megan Milks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These very queer, very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigissue.com\/tag\/trans-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trans<\/a> stories are very good. Notably a choose your own teenage twin adventure and a story about dying the thousand video game deaths of queer adolescence. Ludic, lurid and lush.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/9500\/9787020008742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Outlaws of the Marsh<\/a> by Shi Ni\u2019an<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A deep cut! This 14th-century Chinese novel is the origin point for the gorgeously twisty Suikoden jRPG series and has true bolder-than-brass character vibes. Following awful injustices, 108 outlaws slowly gather in Liangshan Marsh to build society and plot revenge. Picaresque, bawdy and full of devastating weapon techniques.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/9500\/9781936460236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Constellation Games<\/a> by Leonard Richardson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, a hilarious, morbidly imaginative SC adventure about first contact with aliens, followed by first contact with alien video games, all filtered through the critical acumen of a cynical retrogamer. So much thought regarding how societies encode values in video games, plus one of the characters is basically a dinosaur: yes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Award-winning author Jeanne Thornton\u2019s latest novel A\/S\/L is about video games, three queer friends and the code(s) they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,7056,9825,24247,16,15,1644],"class_list":{"0":"post-107952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-from-the-magazine","11":"tag-top-5-books","12":"tag-trans-rights","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-video-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114520967440191983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}