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References to Go
   

This page lists references to the game of Go in movies, literature, or other art forms that readers of the Library may be familiar with.

Movies

(See also [ext] Internet Go Filmography)

Literature

  • 2001: Gust Front? by John Ringo
  • 1999: Distraction by Bruce Sterling
  • 1999: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  • 1999: La Joueuse de Go by Shan Sa, ed. Grasset (has just been published in German as "Die Go-Spielerin")
  • 1997: [ext] Mr Nice by Howard Marks
  • 1995: Endymion? by Dan Simmons. Aenea, the 12 year old messiah, is said to be "excellent at chess, good at Go and deadly at poker".
  • 1995: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (very minor reference)
  • 1995: The Takamoku Joseki? (a short story) by Sara Paretsky (published in Windy City Blues)
  • 1993: Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan: There is a game called "Stones" played by a character or two that sounds suspiciously like Go. (The author has confirmed that the game is in fact Go.)
  • 1989: Demons at Rainbow Bridge by Jack Chalker. Two references: "A colonial claim is made by a rival out on a frontier that is crucial in our galactic game of Go." and "That is all it is to you people, isn't it? A game of Go. But the stones are people, not stones, and you can't see that."
  • 1985: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert Heinlein. A minor reference to Go in a list of standard computer games.
  • 1979: Shibumi by Trevanian
  • 1973: Runaway Horses, by Yukio Mishima (original title "Honda". Tiny reference in a metaphor on p. 179 of my Vintage International translation: "He sensed its presence like a stone that he could place on a Go board wherever he wished.")
  • 1969: Petit Traité Invitant à la Découverte de l'Art Subtil du Go ("Short essay inviting discovery of the subtle art of Go") by Georges Perec
  • 1969: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
  • 1969: The Protracted Game A Wei-Ch'i Interpretation of Maoist Revolutionary Strategy by Scott Boorman
  • 1942: Meijin ("Master of Go") by Kawabata Yasunari

Television

  • 2001: Andromeda? - Captain Dylan Hunt and the Nietzschian, Tyr Anasazi, play a variant of Go.
  • 2000 - 2001? TakeNGive saw a music video by the pop-rock band "Creed", which may have had three or four scenes featuring two people playing Go -- but I wasn't paying attention until too late; can anyone confirm this sighting?


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