TROPE-14-01, “New Novel Machines: Nanowatt<\/i> and World Clock<\/i>“<\/a> by Nick Montfort:<\/p>\n>My Winchester\u2019s Nightmare: A Novel Machine<\/i> (1999) was developed to bring the interactor\u2019s input and the system\u2019s output together into a texture like that of novelistic prose. Almost fifteen years later, after an electronic literature practice mainly related to poetry, I have developed two new \u201cnovel machines.\u201d Rather than being works of interactive fiction, one (Nanowatt,<\/i> 2013) is a collaborative demoscene production (specifically, a single-loading VIC-20 demo) and the other (World Clock,<\/i> 2013) is a novel generator with accompanying printed book. These two productions offer an opportunity to discuss how my own and other highly computational electronic literature relates to the novel. Nanowatt<\/i> and World Clock<\/i> are non-interactive but use computation to manipulate language at low levels. I discuss these aspects and other recent electronic literature that engages the novel, considering to what extent novel-like computational literature in general is becoming less interactive and more fine-grained in its involvement with language.<\/p>\n
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The latest technical report (or “Trope Report”) to issue from the Trope Tank is TROPE-14-01, “New Novel Machines: Nanowatt and World Clock“ by Nick Montfort: >My Winchester\u2019s Nightmare: A Novel Machine (1999) was developed to bring the interactor\u2019s input and the system\u2019s output together into a texture like that of novelistic prose. Almost fifteen years … <\/p>\n
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