Pro wrestlers wreck their bodies, ruin their careers, die far ahead of schedule, and David Shoemaker draws from a rich well of their stories in his new book, The Squared Circle. Here are some, however, who improbably, defiantly made it out alive.

Video game scripts have come a long way, but few still boast authors as acclaimed as Disch, whose 1986 adventure is less a game written like a novel than a novel written as a game.