The original colonists signed the " Covenant of Planetfall ", agreeing that this outcome was just recompense for the labors of the crew during the voyage ; that they signed at gunpoint as they were awakened from hibernation is kept secret from later generations, and also that those who refused, died.

Since January 18, 2011 Zork Anthology ( featuring Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork, Zork Zero and Planetfall ) is internationally available at GOG. com, in a form of digital download.

Additionally, Planetfall makes reference to grues having been unwittingly taken from their home planet ( which is implied to be the world on which Zork takes place ) and introduced to Earth by the alien ship in Starcross, then subsequently spread around the galaxy alongside man and become a universal pest for human civilizations.

The actual reason light acts as such a potent Achilles ' heel for grues is inconsistently given — some games imply that grues find levels of light ordinary for humans to be intolerably, blindingly painful but can nonetheless survive it ( such as in Planetfall, where an obviously grue-like creature exists in a lit laboratory, " squinting and cursing at the light " — although the laboratory contains other creatures that are clearly mutants, so it is possible that this grue is simply a mutant that is able to survive in a lighted area.

The Infocom game Planetfall is a sort of sequel, since the technology gained in " Starcross " is used in the spaceships of that game, set somewhat further in the future.

The game is a sequel to Planetfall, one of Infocom's most popular titles.

But the task does authorize the use of a robot assistant, and coincidentally enough, Floyd, a beloved companion revived at the end of Planetfall, is one of the choices.

In keeping with the tradition established in Planetfall, Stationfall is brimming with a variety of scientific-sounding pseudo-objects such as " bedistors " and " fromitzes ".

* In the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri The United Nations Starship Unity's colony pods holding the seven factions of the game make Planetfall on Chiron, in the Alpha Centauri system.

* has screenshots of Planetfall on a variety of systems and credits for the game.

While many fans reportedly wept over Floyd's death in Planetfall, the game ended on a happy note as he was repaired.

A unique game for its time, Portal was one part text-driven adventure ( à la Zork or Planetfall ) but with a graphical interface.

They also wanted it to star a janitor ( a choice possibly inspired by the mop-wielding main character from Infocom's humorous sci-fi text adventure Planetfall ).

Activision, which acquired Infocom's intellectual property, planned a graphic adventure sequel that would center around Floyd's resurrection, as hinted by the projected title, Planetfall: The Search for Floyd.

** Planetfall ( 1983, Steve Meretzky )

Although Planetfall was Meretzky's first title, it proved one of his most popular works and a best-seller for Infocom ; it was one of five top-selling titles to be re-released in Solid Gold versions including in-game hints.

* Planetfall at the unofficial Infocom Homepage

* The Infocom Bugs List entry for Planetfall

Five games ( Zork I, Planetfall, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wishbringer and Leather Goddesses of Phobos ) were re-released in Solid Gold format.

* Planetfall at Infocom-if. org

The package merely contained photocopies or pictures of these items, such as the sunglasses from Hitchhiker's Guide and the Stellar Patrol ID card from Planetfall.

This unleashes a mutant chase reminiscent of Planetfall where the adventurer stays one step ahead of the Rat Ants because of the shrewdly placed candy bars.

Planetfall box art.

Following the events on Resida in Planetfall, the player's character received a promotion from lowly Ensign Seventh Class to Lieutenant First Class.

It is really the funeral day of scholastic science.

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

Rather what Kornbluth and Pohl are really doing is warning against the dangers inherent in perfecting `` a science of man and his motives ''.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.

The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.

There is a risk that instead of teaching a person how to be himself, reading fiction and drama may teach him how to be somebody else.

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

Finally, there is the undeniable fact that some of the finest American fiction is being written by Jews, but it is not Jewish fiction ; ;

It happens in the territory of the Leopoldville government, which is itself a fiction, demonstrably incapable of governing, and commanding only such limited credit abroad as UN support gives it.