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Publication date
  
1981

Author
  
Poul Anderson

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Originally published
  
February 1981

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Genre(s)
  
Science fiction short story

Publisher
  
Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Awards
  
Hugo Award for Best Novella, Nebula Award for Best Novella

Similar
  
Poul Anderson books, Technic History books, Hugo Award for Best Novella winners

"The Saturn Game" is a science fiction novella by Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1982 and the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1981.

Plot summary

Imaginative roleplaying provides relief for some of the crew on the long, dull trip to Saturn. However their imaginary world becomes hazardously confused with the real one when a team begins the exploration of Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons.

References

The Saturn Game Wikipedia