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[Invasion of the Space Invaders] has remained one of the great literary curios of the 20th century... Like Updike on golf, or Foster Wallace on tennis, Amis approaches video games with an enthusiast's glee, deploying pleading prose that seeks to illuminate the subject's hold on the writer. -- Simon Parkin * Observer *

[Invasion of the Space Invaders] has remained one of the great literary curios of the 20th century... Like Updike on golf, or Foster Wallace on tennis, Amis approaches video games with an enthusiast's glee, deploying pleading prose that seeks to illuminate the subject's hold on the writer. -- Simon Parkin * Observer * A quirky guide to arcade games from Space Invaders to Gorf. -- Cal Revely-Calder * Daily Telegraph * There's plenty of stylistic fizz and flash on show, as always with Amis... he really does, or did, know his video games. -- Sam Leith * Daily Telegraph *

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Martin Amis was twenty-three when he wrote his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). Over the next half century - in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience - he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation. To many of his readers, Amis was also the funniest. His intoxicating comedic gifts express a profound understanding of the human experience, particularly its most shocking cruelties, and Amis wrote with pathos and verve on an astonishing range of subjects, from masculinity and movie violence to nuclear weapons and Nazi doctors. His books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages, provide an indelible portrait and critique of late-capitalist society at the turn of the twenty-first century. He died in 2023.

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