Max Haiven is a writer, teacher, and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead University. His game Billionaires and Guillotines will be published by Pluto Press in 2025, and he’s working on a book titled The Player and the Played: How Financialization Led to Fascism.
Board games aren’t just escapist — they play a unique role in helping us imagine new worlds and different ways of working together. Recent games like Pandemic and Daybreak put the crises of our time on the table and ask us to solve them.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos often talks about humanity starting again on other planets. But a new project funding Amazon workers’ sci-fi writing is imagining how life could be different right here on Earth, in a world without corporate overlords like Bezos.