The nutshell: Mead, a professor of English at Baruch College, explores the role of video games in the military-entertainment complex and the influence America’s armed forces have had on the country’s technology and education.

Literary lovechild of: Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and James Paul Gee’s What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.

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