The Game-players of Titan

Years ago, Earth and Titan fought a war and Earth lost. The planet was irradiated and most of the surviving population is sterile. Now, the few survivors play an unending game called Bluff at the behest of the slug-like aliens who rule the planet. At stake in this game are two very important commodities: land and spouses. Pete Garden has just lost Berkeley and his wife, but he has an audacious plan to win them back. That is, if he isn't derailed by aliens, psychic traitors, or his new wife.Combining a premise that argues for satire with the high stakes of Earth's continued existence, Philip K. Dick crafts a tale as baroque and bizarre as Bluff itself.