Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is "fun" has often been relegated to psychology, or the disciplines of cultural anthropology, literary and media studies, communications and other assorted humanistic and social science disciplines. In Utopic Dreams and ...

Transcendentalist scholar and former detective Homer Kelly agrees to defend a troubled young poet accused of killing her ex-lover’s new wife. To clear her name he must discover who set her up, and what happened during the two minutes of a Nantucket eclipse.