Gordon Houghton


Biography:

Gordon Houghton was born in Blackburn, England in 1965. He is the published author of The Dinner Party and The Apprentice, both of which have been translated into several languages. Game Boy is published here exclusively in eBook format.

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Books:

Game Boy
Ebook Price: $3.99 USD. 75870 words. Fiction by Gordon Houghton on March 15, 2010
A homage to gaming and gamers, this is a snapshot of the life of James Roach, gaming obsessive, collector and competitor. It's a story about growing old, and falling in love, and feeling as retro and useless as a Phillips CD-i. If you've ever played Mario Kart, Bomberman, Robotron, Soul Calibur or Katamari Damacy, it's the book for you.
The Apprentice
Ebook Price: $3.99 USD. 78740 words. Fiction by Gordon Houghton on March 15, 2010
A corpse is resurrected and apprenticed to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for seven days. During the course of the week, he tries to remember how he died, accompanies Death on his daily round, and learns what it means to be undead. (Printed edition published in the UK by Anchor Books, 1999, and as Damned If You Do in the US, 2000.)
The Dinner Party
Ebook Price: $3.99 USD. 61850 words. Fiction by Gordon Houghton on March 13, 2010
Tightly-paced and shot throughout with gallows humour, The Dinner Party is the chilling, ultimately moving story of a young man's obsession with ritual and the peculiar moral universe he inhabits. (Printed edition published in the UK by Anchor Books, 1998.)

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