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Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk 9780816687152
RRP: $128.64SciFier: $105.35The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as "games about games,"... -
Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual Jussi Parikka 9781517912109
RRP: $128.64SciFier: $102.15An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics First introduced by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, the term operational images defines the expanding field of... -
The Silicon Jungle: A Novel of Deception, Power, and Internet Intrigue Shumeet Baluja 9780691169675
SciFier: $31.54What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its... -
Adam Destroys the Internet Adam Beales 9781526655592 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71SciFier: $3.56The second PHENOMENALLY FUNNY fantasy adventure from YouTube sensation and TV presenter Adam B is perfect for fans of David Baddiel and Ben Miller!Thirteen-year-old Adam has made a lot of mistakes in... -
Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk 9780816687169
RRP: $32.15SciFier: $26.08The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games rather than a medium for making metagames. Elegantly defined as "games about games,"... -
All That We See or Seem Ken Liu 9781035915958
SciFier: $19.28Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?- Edgar Allan PoeAt 14, Julia Z became infamous as the "orphan hacker," a teenage prodigy who broke the law and captivated a nation. Now, years... -
Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual Jussi Parikka 9781517912116
RRP: $30.81SciFier: $25.02An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics First introduced by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki, the term operational images defines the expanding field of... -
Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary Rick Dolphijn 9781350163768
SciFier: $48.23Michel Serres captures the urgencies of our time; from the digital revolution to the ecological crisis to the future of the university, the crises that code the world today are addressed in an... -
We Yevgeny Zamyatin 9781838850586
RRP: $20.09SciFier: $13.99The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic... -
The Unpredictability of Gameplay Dr. Mark R. Johnson (University of Sydney, Australia) 9781501365041
SciFier: $48.23The Unpredictability of Gameplay explores the many forms of unpredictability in games and proposes a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding and categorizing non-deterministic game... -
Adam Destroys the Internet Adam Beales 9781526655585
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $13.05The second PHENOMENALLY FUNNY out-of-this-world adventure from YouTube sensation and TV presenter Adam B is perfect for fans of David Baddiel and Ben Miller! Thirteen-year-old Adam has made a lot... -
Adam Destroys the Internet Adam Beales 9781526655592
RRP: $10.71SciFier: $9.37The second PHENOMENALLY FUNNY fantasy adventure from YouTube sensation and TV presenter Adam B is perfect for fans of David Baddiel and Ben Miller! Thirteen-year-old Adam has made a lot of... -
Real-time 3D Character Animation with Visual C++ Nik Lever 9780240516646
SciFier: $127.96Do you have some experience and a reasonable knowledge of C++ and want to write your own computer games? Have you ever looked at a PC or Playstation (R) game with characters running and leaping... -
Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope Dr. Jadranka Skorin-Kapov (Stony Brook University, USA) 9781501320156
SciFier: $54.93Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope offers the first sustained analysis of the current oeuvre of the film director, screenwriter, and producer Darren Aronofsky. Including Pi (1998),... -
Reconfiguring the Portrait by Abraham Geil
RRP: $127.30SciFier: $118.16Presents a new multidisciplinary perspective on portraiture in the era of post-digital media Extends the domain of portraiture to include not just painting, photography, and film but also... -
Tyler Hobbs: Order/Disorder Tyler Hobbs 9780903696883
RRP: $67.00SciFier: $48.23Tyler Hobbs' debut monograph is one of the first to focus on the work of a generative artist. Order/Disorder contextualises Hobbs' groundbreaking art from 2018-2023 and includes works from his 2023... -
Love And Other Human Errors: set in the near future, the most original rom-com you'll read this year! Bethany Clift 9781529332216
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $10.72An unforgettable story about love in all its chaotic glory from the author of Last One At The PartyA book synopsis is fundamentally ridiculous. How can I possibly convey, in only 100 words, the... -
Love And Other Human Errors: the most original rom-com you'll read this year! Bethany Clift 9781529332216 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39SciFier: $5.08An unforgettable story about love in all its chaotic glory from the author of Last One At The PartyA book synopsis is fundamentally ridiculous. How can I possibly convey, in only 100 words, the... -
Love And Other Human Errors: set in the near future, the most original rom-com you'll read this year! Bethany Clift 9781529332179
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $18.80'An eerie yet witty tale of what the future might be like' Sun'Such is the wit and exuberance of her writing, so engaging are her characters, it's easy to miss the sheer ingenuity that's gone into... -
Literary Art in Digital Performance by PhD Francisco J. Ricardo (Independent scholar, USA)
SciFier: $40.44"Literary Art in Digital Performance" examines a dozen works of digital literature, a category comprising creative works that are principally (but not exclusively) textual in character, and which... -
American Omens by Travis Thrasher
SciFier: $21.69In this taut thriller that imagines a near-future America following the decline of the Religious Right, where the Christ-followers who have anticipated a rising intolerance for their beliefs for... -
When the Machine Made Art by Grant D. Taylor
SciFier: $42.87Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other... -
Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan Teri J. Silvio 9780824881160
RRP: $41.47SciFier: $26.32The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywhere-in cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects... -
Mastering Community Management: Chaos, Compassion, and Connections in Games Victoria Tran 9781032555218
RRP: $167.49SciFier: $150.16Game communities are inevitable - in fact, they're one of the main features of a game. How can our online interactions be better, kinder, and more productive conversations? How can community managers... -
Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan Teri J. Silvio 9780824876623
RRP: $107.20SciFier: $70.63The early twenty-first century has seen an explosion of animation. Cartoon characters are everywhere-in cinema, television, and video games and as brand logos. There are new technological objects... -
My Meteorite: Or, Without The Random There Can Be No New Thing Harry Dodge 9781787302341
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $17.30'Where can the human animal seek its energy in this era of lockdowns and social distancing? Dodge may help us to find out' Guardian'If you're a fan of Maggie Nelson's work, you'll like this book... -
Digital Uncanny Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli (Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, University of California - Davis) 9780190854003
SciFier: $56.35We are now confronted with a new type of uncanny experience, an uncanny evoked by parallel processing, aggregate data, and cloud-computing. The digital uncanny does not erase the uncanny feeling we... -
Rise Of The Red Hand by Olivia Chadha
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $11.50"Steeped in elements from real-life South Asian cultures, the worldbuilding is original and intriguing, incorporating dystopian and utopian elements along with current hot issues such as societal... -
All That We See or Seem Ken Liu 9781035915965
RRP: $14.73SciFier: $10.75*2026 LOCUS FINALIST FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL**ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2025*Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?- Edgar Allan PoeAt 14, Julia Z became... -
Game Physics by David H. Eberly
SciFier: $151.89Create physically realistic 3D Graphics environments with this introduction to the ideas and techniques behind the process. Author David H. Eberly includes simulations to introduce the key problems... -
If Then Matthew De Abaitua 9780857664716
RRP: $12.05SciFier: $9.00In the near future, after the collapse of society as we know it, one English town survives under the protection of the computer algorithms of the Process, which governs every aspect of their lives... -
Borderless by Eliot Peper
SciFier: $19.04Information is power, and whoever controls the feed rules the world in this all-too-plausible follow-up to the science fiction thriller Bandwidth. Exiled from Washington after a covert operation... -
The Documentary Filmmaking Master Class (Second Edition): Tell Your Story from Concept to Distribution Betsy Chasse 9781621538677
RRP: $46.90SciFier: $29.20"A realist with a sense of humor, Chasse is both stringent and encouraging as she covers every aspect of creating a successful production." -Booklist starred reviewHow to Make and Distribute a... -
Retro Jessica M. Goldstein 9780241809457
RRP: $22.77SciFier: $18.21DISCOVER THE ZEITGEISTY TIME TRAVEL DEBUT WITH A TWIST 'I want to travel back so I can read it again for the first time!' Casey Scieszka, author of The Fountain'So much fun!' Holly Gramazio,... -
NeuroScience Fiction by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
RRP: $17.41SciFier: $16.40What if science fiction stopped being fiction? Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi scenarios into reality, and causing us to revisit some of the philosophical questions we have been... -
Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb Kenneth Goldsmith 9780231186940
RRP: $107.20SciFier: $100.26In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out as a site to share works from a relatively... -
Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb Kenneth Goldsmith 9780231186957
RRP: $29.48SciFier: $25.42In 1996, during the relatively early days of the web, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. What started out as a site to share works from a relatively... -
Getting Gamers by Jamie Madigan
SciFier: $25.78Video games are big business. They can be addicting. They are available almost anywhere you go and are appealing to people of all ages. They can eat up our time, cost us money, even kill our... -
Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice Jordan Magnuson 9781943208890
SciFier: $89.63Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being "poetic," yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice,...