Tony Palumbi is the coauthor of the critically acclaimed book The Extreme Life of the Sea. His writing has been published by the Atlantic, the Washington Post, National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times, and Mission Blue, among other outlets. He lives in Orangevale, California.
One hundred million people have played World of Warcraft in the 12 years since its inception. Those people did more than play; they worked, they fought, they triumphed, they held entire game servers hostage, they even married each other in real life. They developed new identities, swapping their workaday selves for warriors, mages, assassins, and healers. Blood Plagues and Endless Raids explores a wild, incredibly complex culture partly through the author’s engaging personal story but also through the stories of other players and developers. It represents the definitive (and only) account of one of the world’s biggest pop culture phenomena.
