God Game : Andrew M. Greeley

What would it like to be a god? To bear the responsibility for a world of passionate and violent men and women who love you, ignore you, curse you, disobey you, pray to you - and desperately need you? A world you can see and influence, but never actually enter. In the midst of a complex computer game a lightning bolt strikes and the incredible occurs. The player finds himself plunged into a colourful world of alien people engaged in bitter warfare. His people - accepting him as their deity, entering his dreams, invading his days...