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Adrian Hon

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Adrian Hon is co-founder and CEO at Six to Start, creators of gamelike stories and story-like games including the world's bestselling smartphone fitness game, Zombies, Run!, with ten million players. Six to Start's clients have included Disney, the BBC, Channel 4, and Penguin, and the company has won multiple awards including Best of Show at SXSW.

Adrian is author of A History of the Future in 100 Objects, and has written a column about technology for the Telegraph. He originally trained as a neuroscientist at Cambridge, UCSD, and Oxford.

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	You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All 3.77 avg rating — 305 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of the Future in 100 Objects 4.05 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La società della ricompensa: Perché la gamification ci fa giocare di più ma divertire di meno by Adrian Hon (Goodreads Author), Paolo Bassotti (translator) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Adrian Hon rated a book it was amazing The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet by Yi-Ling Liu (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Tremendously touching and important. If you want to know about how the Chinese Internet blossomed and then shrank, how it gave room to feminists and then hounded them, how it shaped hip hop and gay culture, this is for you. And unlike so many books a ...more
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Adrian Hon rated a book really liked it On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adrian Hon rated a book it was amazing The Husbands by Holly Gramazio (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adrian Hon finished reading The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games by David I. Waddington	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adrian Hon finished reading The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism by Max Haiven (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adrian Hon rated a book it was amazing Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adrian Hon rated a book liked it Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adrian Hon finished reading The Future of Storytelling: How Immersive Experiences Are Transforming Our World by Charles Melcher (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adrian Hon rated a book it was amazing Hav by Jan Morris	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Fantastic piece of worldbuilding by an expert travel writer
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