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From: pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen)
Subject: Re: Anyone else TIRED of Computer Writes a Book
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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 17:51:37 GMT
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You're probably right. Unless somebody who is actively working on such
a project and wishes to comment there probably isn't a whole lot more to say. 

I will say that I think the response to the topic indicates that maybe
there is a hunger in the group for discussions of interactive fiction
in the context of something other than adventure-type games. (By the
way I don't think the original example really was interactive fiction,
but *if* a computer could write a "regular" book it seems like an
interactive book wouldn't be that far away). 

I'm not an old hand at this interactive fiction stuff (far from it - I
discovered it in the last few months) but I find I'm already a little
tired of killing dwarves. I don't know if I really want to be involved
in sword fights or quests for gold or dragons to any great extent.

As I say, I'm new to this stuff. Am I missing a large body of work
that is not of the adventure game genre? Don't get me wrong, I think
those things are terrific. But it seems like it is just one kind of
interactive fiction and that other types could be equally interesting. 

Regards,
Ted

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* Ted Pedersen                                  pedersen@seas.smu.edu * 
* Department of Computer Science and Engineering,                     *
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