Masters of Doom

Masters of Doomis the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream, escaping the broken homes of their youth to produce the most notoriously successful game franchises in historyDoomandQuake until the games they made tore them apart. This is a story of friendship and betrayal, commerce and artistrya powerful and compassionate account of what it's like to be young, driven, and wildly creative.

<b>DAVID KUSHNER</b> has written for numerous publications, including<i> Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Wired, New York, Worth, Electronic Gaming Monthly, The Village Voice, Details, Mondo 2000,</i> and <i>Salon.</i> He is the digital-music columnist for Rolling Stone online, and a contributing editor for Spin and IEEE Spectrum. He has also worked as a senior producer and writer for the music website SonicNet. He received a B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a master’s in creative writing from City University of New York. He can be reached at www.davidkushner.com.