Games (They’ll Wonder What Happened to Us)

A tour of freshly half-baked ruins and the corrosive effects of real-time data.

I’m not a big numbers guy. I like stories. Sometimes numbers can illustrate a story. But they’re never the story, for me at least. Any story that ends with a number - by 2010, it was ten million - is probably not a great story.

But numbers found a way to get a grip on me. When I published my first novel in 2011, Amazon offered me real-time updates of…