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Game

Donald Barthelme

First published July 1965
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

The soldiers assigned to man the launch button in a nuclear missile silo have not been relieved by the next shift for quite some time, and are becoming increasingly erratic.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1966 Nebula Award Short Story Nominee/Finalist

Publications (10)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1965 The New Yorker, July 31, 1965 MAGAZINE
1966 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F Delacorte Press Anthology 159
September 1967 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F Dell Anthology 159
September 1967 11th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F Dell Anthology 159
September 1969 The War Book Rupert Hart-Davis Anthology 57
1971 The War Book Panther Anthology 45
September 1981 Sixty Stories G. P. Putnam's Sons Collection 63
1986 The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection Houghton Mifflin Anthology 680
November 2000 The Vintage Book of Amnesia Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology 321
October 2001 Stigmata: An Anthology of Writing and Art Cocytus Press Anthology 195