Interactive fiction is text-driven games and stories most commonly associated with the dawn of the computing age and games like Zork. Depending on one's definition, you might be able to stretch the category to include games like Nethack.Today, it is a thriving sub-culture with new works being created by independent creators. The Interactive Fiction Database … Continue reading Interactive Fiction & Text-Based Games
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A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction
"Dystopia used to be a fiction of resistance; it’s become a fiction of submission, the fiction of an untrusting, lonely, and sullen twenty-first century, the fiction of fake news and infowars, the fiction of helplessness and hopelessness. It cannot imagine a better future, and it doesn’t ask anyone to bother to make one. It nurses … Continue reading A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction
