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Like many of Andrew Plotkin's games, Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home is beautiful because so alien.

The protagonist is very unlike ourselves; his (or her, or its) culture and technology are advanced beyond imagining, and we get only hints. Bored with a life of technological ease, he (or she, or it) sets off across lightyears of space, alone, to look for whatever secrets that bit of the universe might have to offer.