Years ago, Earth and Titan fought a war and Earth lost. The planet was once irradiated and some of the surviving population is sterile. The few survivors play an intricate and unending game known as Bluff on the behest of the slug-like aliens who rule the planet. At stake within the game are two crucial commodities: land and spouses. Pete Garden just lost his wife and Berkeley, California, but he has a plan to win them back. That may be, if he isn’t derailed by aliens, psychic traitors, or his new wife.

The Game-Players of Titan is both satire and adventure, examining the binds that bind folks in combination and the maddening peccadilloes of bureaucracy, whether the bureaucrats are humans or alien slugs.