We Need More Science (Fiction), part 1

Recently acquired Terra Mystica and have been celebrating it both when in front of me and not like a strong infatuation. If not familiar: it is a board game. What makes it so great is the gameplay; as for the premise, the narrative backdrop, I rewrite it in my head as the struggle of different post-human races a la John C. Wright's Count to a Trillion series.
Meanwhile, I just finished a fantasy novel, the Pilgrims,  while Christina is reading the first of Count to a Trillion and  find myself criticizing 'Pilgrims for how it isn't 'Trillion. *sigh* What is one to do? One, when one equals moi, makes...
A Science Fiction Inspired Board (Computer) Game