I've recenly become a fan of a game called Minecraft. It's a sandbox game; like so many such games, its goals are open to interpretation. But one experience that most players seem to share is this: within the first 'day' of the game, you build a small shelter to keep out the night, and this shelter becomes your character's first home ( Read more... )

Floating (or, as it were, falling) high above the earth is a small colony of people, living in a space no larger than a few school buses welded together. They sail through the darkness, going about their lives. Their day-to-day activities do little to betray the perilous nature of their existence, for their environment is naturally hostile to their ( Read more... )