Games Literature

Soon I Will Be Invincible: The Movie (Austin Grossman) ---»

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Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, one of the newest, flattest, most comic-book-like written, and most excellent, contemporary translation and update of a paratactic Rabelaisian Le Quart-Livre of Pantagruel, is a true contribution to that canonical and oft-under metabolized taxonomic clade of literature dealing with the inhuman fables of a fictional character… and [...]

Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (Alfred Bester) ---»

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No one can Best the Bester. In some ways, Besters writing requires the heavy onslaught of his novelistic form to function, as his language is highly immersive. In short stories, it mostly highlights the weird prose poetics of his florid writing style. However, its unfortunate that we have so little from Bester.. He really should [...]

Software Engineering and Computer Games (Rudy Rucker) ---»

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Not to review textbooks, but this is a good textbook. Its rare that discussions of engineering veer into the conceptual gestalt as much, especially as practices become enmeshed in ratiocination to the nth degree. The window foundation class codebase is highly outdated and inappropriate for the level of design presentation and discussion, but if taken [...]

Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker (Rudy Rucker) ---»

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For those who have read Ruckers novels, many of these storys are familiar, with a few add in tweaks. For those who havent, lord only knows what theyll think. Not a bad collection but I preferred his very early shorts. They had a roughness and less formulaic infectiousness, not that his writing ever lacks infectiousness. [...]