Star Worlds: Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds

by William Sims Bainbridge

Star Worlds explores the future-oriented universe of online virtual worlds connected with popular science fiction--specifically, with Star Wars and Star Trek--that have been inhabited for over a decade by computer gamers. The Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, both of which have shaped the dominant science fiction mythologies of the last half-century, offer profound conceptions of the tension between freedom and control in human economic,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472073281
• ISBN13: 9780472073283
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"