James Frey - Rules of the Game

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First published in hardback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2016

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Version: 2016-11-28

Contents

Cover

About the Book

Title Page

Copyright

Kepler 22B

An Liu

Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Aisling Kopp, Pop Kopp, Greg Jordan, Griffin Marrs

Maccabee Adlai, Little Alice Chopra

An Liu

Aisling Kopp, Greg Jordan, Griffin Marrs, Pop Kopp, Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Shari Chopra

Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt

An Liu

Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc

An Liu

Maccabee Adlai, Little Alice Chopra

An Liu, Nori Ko

Shari Chopra

Aisling Kopp, Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Shari Chopra, Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Stella Vyctory, Pop Kopp, Greg Jordan, Griffin Mars

Shari Chopra, Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Aisling Kopp, Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Pop Kopp, Greg Jordan, Griffin Mars

Shari Chopra, Pop Kopp

Maccabee Adlai, Little Alice Chopra

An Liu, Nori Ko

Shari Chopra, Aisling Kopp, Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Pop Kopp, Greg Jordan, Griffin Marrs

An Liu, Nori Ko

Maccabee Adlai, Little Alice Chopra

Aisling Kopp, Shari Chopra, Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Greg Jordan, Griffin Marrs

Kepler 22B

Maccabee Adlai, Little Alice Chopra

An Liu, Nori Ko

Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc

Kepler 22B

Aisling Kopp, Greg Jordan, Griffin Marrs

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Shari Chopra

Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Simon Alopay

Aisling Kopp, Pop Kopp, Kepler 22B

Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Simon Alopay

An Liu, Nori Ko

Kepler 22B

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Shari Chopra, Jenny Ulapala

Shari Chopra

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Shari Chopra, Jenny Ulapala

Maccabee Adlai, Little Alice Chopra

Kepler 22B

An Liu, Nori Ko, Maccabee Adlai, Little Alice Chopra

Kepler 22B

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Shari Chopra, Jenny Ulapala

An Liu, Maccabee Adlai, Little Alice Chopra

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Shari Chopra, Jenny Ulapala

An Liu, Maccabee Adlai, Little Alice Chopra

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Shari Chopra, Jenny Ulapala

An Liu, Maccabee Adlai, Little Alice Chopra, Nori Ko

Kepler 22B

An Liu, Nori Ko, Little Alice Chopra

Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Simon Alopay

Greg Jordan

An Liu, Nori Ko, Little Alice Chopra

Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Simon Alopay

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt

Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Simon Alopay

An Liu, Nori Ko, Little Alice Chopra

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt

An Liu, Nori Ko, Little Alice Chopra

Kepler 22B

An Liu, Nori Ko, Little Alice Chopra

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt

Shari Chopra, Jenny Ulapala

Nori Ko

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Nori Ko

An Liu, Little Alice Chopra

Shari Chopra, Jenny Ulapala

An Liu, Kepler 22B, Little Alice Chopra, Jenny Ulapala, Shari Chopra

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Little Alice Chopra, Kepler 22B

Jenny Ulapala

Hilal Ibn Isa Al-Salt, Little Alice Chopra, Jenny Ulapala, Kepler 22B, Aisling Kopp

23 Months, 5 Days Later

Endnotes

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About the Publisher

kepler 22b sits in a shiny chair in the center of a black, low-ceilinged room. His seven-fingered hands are woven together, his platinum hair bound into a perfect sphere perched on top of his head. He reviews the report he is about to give over the ansible to his conclave, many light years away. The game taking place on the blue-and-white planet in the next orbit has experienced hitches and unforeseen developments, but it progresses nonetheless. Most of what has transpired is not terribly worrying, with the notable exception of the destruction of one of Earth’s 12 great monuments. This was the one that belonged to the La Tène Celts, the one called Stonehenge, and it is now utterly gone and useless. kepler 22b is deeply disturbed by this. At least one of these ancient structures—ones that were erected many millennia ago, when his people walked alongside the young humans of Earth—at least one is required to finish Endgame.

And this, more than anything, is what he wishes to see happen.

For a Player to win.

A Player.

He turns his attention from the report to a transmission hologram projected into the air not far from his face. A dim real-time blip moves over the map of a city on the Indian subcontinent. A Player. Judging by the speed, he uses some kind of vehicle.