The annual <a title="The 16th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition" href="http://www.ifcomp.org/">Interactive Fiction Competition</a>, edition the 16th, has been underway for nearly a month, but vacation and classes and, well, let's face it, life in general, have delayed my chance to download and start evaluating the 25 (26?) new games to emerge in the <a title="Interactive Fiction" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction">IF</a> scene.