Dave Ciccoricco returns to Stuart Moulthrop, considers Operation Enduring Freedom (2003) in light of Operation Desert Storm (1991), and consults the annals of World War II for a likely source of "Victory Garden," the title of Moulthrop's 1991 network fiction on the Gulf War.

Matthew Kirschenbaum rethinks the final section of First Person in light of "five basic strategies for furthering the history of reading."

Henry Jenkins uses narrative space to distinguish between different tale-ends.

Jesper Juul maps the "flow" state of gameplay onto innerspace and elsewhere.

Applying games to games, Celia Pearce uses The Sims to showcase six keywords.

Eric Zimmerman whips "four naughty concepts" into disciplinary shape.

Slavoj Žižek addresses the situation of post-9/11 global politics - and his own, controversial, theories of the political - in this interview with Eric Dean Rasmussen.

Jane McGonigal goes mobile with a "transformational agenda" shift for Cyberdrama.

Do violent games train us for violence? Drawing on social psychology and cognitive science, Simon Penny examines the "ethics of simulation."

Gonzalo Frasca's proposal for videogames that address "critical thinking, education, tolerance, and other trivial issues."

Phoebe Sengers discusses the Expressivator and socially situated AI.

Bill Seaman hyphenates the "hybrid-languages" of Lexia to Perplexia.

Eric Zimmerman modifies Gonzalo Frasca's game strategy with a strategic patch.

Reiichi Miura considers the worldwide reception of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and charts a course for a fiction where nationalism loses relevance.

Katie King on the challenges and rewards, in her own life and the lives of her students, that emerge when writing about personal encounters with technology.

Pattern, absence, routine, return - Dave Ciccoricco mulls the shape(s) in Michael Joyce's new paper novel, Liam's Going

In looking to the future of the 'electronic book,' Ciccoricco digs up some of ebr's manifesto-like remarks of old.

Despite talk of endings and absences at Eastgate Systems, Dave Ciccoricco investigates continuities in the work of Michael Joyce and Mark Bernstein.

Rone Shavers argues that making readers aware of subjugation - the strategy of Harold Jaffe's False Positive - exposes little and hardly changes our relation to power.

A book about books conscious of their materiality, N. Katherine Hayles' Writing Machines draws praise from Raine Koskimaa for its own media consciousness, and blame for embodied emphasis.