An Annotated Bibliography Of Interactive Fiction Scholarship Including Fan-produced Criticism and Theory
The term "interactive fiction" is here applied to a specific form of computer-mediated textual narrative that responds to user input, generally in the form of brief typed commands (e.g. "take keys" or "headmaster, tell me about Malcolm"). The text unfolds collaboratively, with the "player" actually writing part of the narrative. This bibliography does not examine literary hypertext.
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Contents:
§ 1) Academic/Professional Sources 1.1: Books, Articles and Theses 1.2: Conference Papers, Project Reports and Student Papers § 2) General (Non-academic) Publications 2.1: Reportage (Journalism and Non-academic Books) 2.2: Essays (Nostalgia and Reflection) 2.3: Literature (References to IF in Other Genres) §3) Manifestos and Taxonomies Reviews, commentary and criticism from the IF community.§ 4) Archives and Meta-resources Newsletters, weblogs, and other compilations.