{"id":1435,"date":"2011-03-01T01:47:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T06:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2011-03-01T01:49:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T06:49:39","slug":"the-if-theory-reader-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/03\/the-if-theory-reader-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"The IF Theory Reader<\/i> Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Almost a decade after the project began, the IF Theory Reader<\/i> is finally here, thanks to the hard work of editors Kevin Jackson-Mead and J. Robinson Wheeler. The book has been published by Transcript On Press and has made it out in time for PAX-East, where Kevin’s group The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction<\/a> will be hosting a hospitality suite.<\/p>\n

There are 438 pages in this book, which can be downloaded as a PDF for free<\/a> or purchased as a paperback for a mere $13.26.<\/a><\/p>\n

My own contribution, “Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction,” has a first page which (except for the title of the article) is entirely occupied by a footnote. Perhaps ominously. I did, however, revise the article for the N+1th time, trying to make it a bit more accessible. I began writing this particular piece back when this book project was first being formulated, and am very, very glad to have it officially published after all these years.<\/p>\n

The compendium of writing about interactive fiction that we finally have here includes 26 articles – the same number, I should mention, as there are letters of the alphabet:<\/p>\n