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From: jacobw@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Solomon Weinstein)
Subject: Re: Disch's _Amnesia_
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tallison@hamp.hampshire.edu writes:
>	I recently came across an interview with Thomas M. Disch (in
>Larry McCafferty's _Across the Wounded Galaxies_) in which Disch
>discusses working on an Infocom game called _Amnesia_.  I was
>extremely intrigued, as this is the first I had ever heard of any
>major SF author becoming directly involved with interactive fiction.
>(Please let me know if there are others I'm not thinking of- for 
>example, what degree of control did Pohl have over the _Gateway_ game,
> or Zelazny with _Nine Princes in Amber_?)

To quote from the "About The Author" blurb from Suspended: "Michael
Berlyn is a writer whose books include _The Integrated Man_ and _Crystal
Phoenix_ from Bantam books. He is the author of Suspend, Infidel,
and Cutthroats, all from Infocom." Of course, I don't know if he's
a MAJOR s.f. author...
