Interactive fiction, aka text adventure games, have finally come to the one platform for which they could hardly be more perfect: Amazon’s Kindle. The first work of interactive fiction on the device ...

It all started with an episode of “The Big Bang Theory”. Protagonist Dr. Sheldon Cooper sits in front of his laptop, his face distorted by heavy concentration. He’s playing a game. Suddenly, he starts ...

If you’ve ever thought one of your text message threads was so good it deserved to be published, you may be on to something. A new fiction app rolling out today delivers stories to your smartphone in ...

Will the next great novel be nothing more than a series of text messages? Uh, maybe not, but there’s always room to experiment with new formats. That’s what husband-and-wife team Parag Chordia and ...

Gavin Miller’s Science Fiction and Psychology appears as book 62 in the Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies from Liverpool University Press. Readers accustomed to titles that examine specific ...

Easy-to-use tools and indie game markets help ’80s-style interactive fiction draw in new developers and new players like never before. Indie games are often noted for their simplistic graphics, but ...

TaleSpinner is "a publisher and development system for original works of interactive fiction," or what many of us might call text-based adventure games (though, yes, I'm aware the categorisation is a ...

Have you ever heard of chat fiction apps? If not, then you’re probably not a teenager. These digital book alternatives, which are presented as text messages, have been dominating the app charts for ...

Mayurika Chakravorty has received funding from SSHRC. SSHRC Connections Grant, 2019 (co-applicant) Project: Republic of Childhood: Imagining the Future of Children's Rights Carleton University ...

In your English language exams, you’ll be asked to evaluate or write a non fiction text. Non fiction is writing that is based on real life events and consists of factual information and opinions about ...