Elegy for a Dead World

As soon as I saw this beautiful game I wanted to play it in my classes. Fortunately, Steam was generous to give us enough keys to try.   I was personally more interested in getting lost in the visuals than I was in writing, but my students loved it and produced excellent work.  This game is gorgeous, but […]

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Writing Infrastructure

The dictionary defines “infrastructure” as the “basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.” The works of sf we’ve read for today juxtapose human (or human-like, in the case of “His Vegetable Wife”) beings with infrastructural features, such as the mailman […]

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