Brain In A Jar: The Revolution Of Unplayability
The obtusion of Cruelty Squad forces players to confront the alienating horror of life as a tool of capital by Julia Norza You don’t notice the first time Cruelty Squad lowers your difficulty. After a rickety cutscene introduces your bed-unframed
The Writing On the Wall: Sci-Fi’s Empty Techno-Optimism
Before "offering solutions," sci-fi must actually grapple with the material realities of our present by Eli Horowitz The year was 2011, and the award-winning sci-fi author Neal Stephenson was drinking himself maudlin on the sweetened wine of nostalgia.
Rated “G” for “Globalization”
How the drive for easily marketable, mass-consumable children's media stifles complexity and creativity by Malcolm Rambert Cartoon Network’s Infinity Train is a unique show. Each season of the show—which were called “Books” in production—follows a vast, extradimensional train as
Because They Could Not Stop
SHORT FICTION by Dennis Mombauer The seed plummets back toward the womb. V. Clinzell watches the atmosphere grow, the endless ocean and the ruins rising from below. The position lights shine from under the waves, the signal arrays have drowned decades ago. Because they
The Empath
SHORT FICTION by Raquel S. Benedict The stranger’s suffering called to her across a great stretch of wood and thicket. Its distance, its faintness should have made it easy to ignore, but instead it nagged at her like a scab one is