May Abdalla

Goliath: Playing with Reality

After a decade of isolation in psychiatric institutions, Jon, a paranoid schizophrenic, finds his salvation in online video games.

Messages to a Post Human Earth

In 1981, the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem wrote an essay for the Human Interference Task Force. This body was discussing a formidable problem: how can warnings about the dangers of stored radioactive waste still be understood in ten thousand years’ time? Languages die out and are forgotten; and by that time, no one knows whether there will be any people at all.