Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture

This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate reality games. How ´radical` can printed Future Narratives really be, given...

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Main Author: Meifert-Menhard, Felicitas (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2013
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