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From: tim@tim.demon.co.uk (Tim Kimberley)
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Recently some one on this group asked for newsclippings 
on Infocom and all that jazz. He wasn't very polite, so
I done figured he must be the burned-out teenager from
that movie Talk Radio. Over here we call their like lager-
louts, or yuppies. 

For the rest of us, I have:

Buckles, Mary Ann. "Interactive Fiction as Literature: adventure
   games have a literary lineage." Byte. # ?? (May 1987)

Collingbourne, Huw. "The Man Behind Zork." Computer Shopper. # 7
   (Sep 1988)              (the Brit magazine of this name, btw)

The first is based on a doctoral dissertation written at the U of
CA at San Diego - so those of us with university connections can
get it from UMI at Ann Arbor, MI. Would someone care to look up the
abstract and post it?

The second is an interview with Dave Lebling, from the period of
Circuit's Edge, and Zork Zero, as I recall. The reporter is a very 
witty freelance which used to write about vacuous pop-stars in 
improbable haircuts, and the author of The Golden Wombat of Destiny. 
Now he's casting for ideas for an article that addresses the question 
of if the text adventure is dead. (Yes, like Schoedinger's cat is.)

As far as I know these articles have not yet been pirated onto the
IF archive. Unless someone mails me to say I'm wrong and so not to bother,
I'll make an attempt to capture them for us. I'm a poor typist and my OCR
is a dog, so it'll not be soon. Before the day after manyana, though.


