The lit-inspired return of an 8-bit ‘edutainment’ game

In a return to the ‘edutainment’ style 80s games we once knew and loved, EmilyBlaster is a computer game based around the poems of Emily Dickinson.

It is based on the version created and described in Gabrielle Zevin’s forthcoming novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and has been released by the book’s US publisher in celebration of its publication.

Zevin’s novel follows Sadie and Sam across a 30 year friendship, from childhood through college, city to city. The two work together to create video games, and among some of the first Sadie makes is EmilyBlaster.

Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.