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Octagon: a player. Starweb: a computer moderated role playing game. Pay your fee, read the rules, take on a persona, mail-in your move and begin. Forge alliances, attack your enemies, build an empire. All great fun for computer savvy players, until something goes amiss and players begin dying.

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BN ID:	2940151521246
Publisher:	JSS Literary Productions
Publication date:	04/03/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	426 KB

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Fred Saberhagen is widely published in many areas of speculative fiction. He is best known for his Berserker, Swords, Dracula and Gods series. Fred authored a number of non-series fantasy and science fiction novels and a great number of short stories. For more information on Fred visit his website: www.fredsaberhagen.com

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LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just plain cool! Its got horror, action, mystery, suspense, and a robot who kills people, but only those playing "the game"

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4 of 5 stars
Saberhagen has written not only a great story that compels the reader on, but also he has accurately predicted the future. The basic premise is an emerging artificial intelligence networking with the real world to win a game. Beware the computer who measures the real world by what real people do…

Goodreads - Foxtower Reviewer

Octagon was the first convincing, even plausible, realistic visualization in a novel of a global computer network with everyone hooked in…the first to suggest diffused computing across all machines.
… an on-line computer game, with everyone playing linked together (sound familiar?) … It gets scary…sometimes when watching people playing on-line I wonder 'Which game is the one that will become Octagon?'
This was the thin end of the wedge in terms of cyber reality…

Amazon - R.F. Stevens

…an age of Radio Shack TRS-80s, dial-up acoustic coupler modems and turn-based strategy games played via the medium of snailmail. …a 12-year-old boy enlists the aid of a Cray-4 supercomputer to help him win a strategy game called Starweb…his actions lead to the spontaneous creation of an AI called OCTAGON

(tension) gradually ramps up…then releases in progressively more inventive and violent assaults orchestrated by OCTAGON… a spectacularly destructive climax

Amazon - A. Molerat

Players scattered across the continent are engaged in a game. Each player has certain attributes, including skill, strength, courage, cunning, and daring. Each has his kingdom. Each can ally with or attack any of the others . . . But one player seems to have confused the reality of the game with the reality of the world: a player with the attributes of machinelike precision and mechanical ruthlessness. His name is Octagon, and he's out for blood. Even though he doesn't have any.

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