The Game-Players of Titan (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series)

GREGG PRESS, 1979, hardcover issued without dustjacket. First published in 1963, this is the first American hardcover edition. A classic Philip K. Dick novel, this one involves a depopulated, post-apocalyptic earth. The remaining humans play a board game called "Bluff," and the outcomes determine marriages, status and property of the players. The Game is administered by amorphous, silicon-based aliens from Titan, Saturn's largest satellite.