![]() Ellison demanded, both implicitly in his stories and explicitly in his interviews, that science fiction cast off its fetish for shiny technology-fueled utopias and address the semi-mythical Future in a more humanistic, skeptical way. In the pages of Frederick Pohl’s magazine If, he paraded a series of scintillatingly trippy short stories that were like nothing anyone had ever seen before, owing as much to James Joyce and Jack Kerouac as they did to Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. The pint-sized dervish burst into literary prominence in the mid-1960s, marching at the vanguard of science fiction’s New Wave. ![]() Harlan Ellison made a very successful career out of biting the hands that fed him. To slip a little loco weed into your Coca-Cola. We created this game to give you all the stuff you think you want, but to put a burr into your side at the same time. So I’m actually out here to mess with you, if you want to know it. I don’t think you like to be diverted too much. It would be my delight if this game set a trend and all of the arcade bang-bang games that turn kids into pistol-packing papas and mamas were subsumed into games like this in which ethical considerations and using your brain and unraveling puzzles become the modus operandi. I am told by people that it is a game unlike any other game around at the moment and I guess that’s a good thing. Not because I’m smarter, but because everything was done to confuse and upset you. ![]() But if you are mad to buy this game, you’ll probably have a hell of a lot of fun playing it, it will probably make you uneasy, and you’ll probably be a smarter person when you’re done playing the game. To the person who contemplating buying this game, what would I say? I would say take your money and give it to the homeless, you’ll do more good. ![]()
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