By Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat Harrigan
The ever-expanding capacities of computing supply new narrative probabilities for digital worlds. but enormous narratives—featuring an ongoing and intricately constructed storyline, many characters, and a number of settings—did no longer originate with, and aren't restricted to, hugely Multiplayer on-line video games. Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Marvel's Spiderman, and the complicated tales of such tv exhibits as Dr. Who, The Sopranos, and Lost all current enormous fictional worlds.
3rd individual explores recommendations of giant narrative throughout a number of media, together with games, tv, literature, comedian books, tabletop video games, and electronic paintings. The contributors—media and tv students, novelists, comedian creators, online game designers, and others—investigate such matters as continuity, canonicity, interactivity, fan fiction, technological innovation, and cross-media phenomena.
Chapters study a number of issues, together with storytelling in a multiplayer atmosphere; narrative options for a 3,000,000-page novel; continuity (or the impossibility of it) in Doctor Who; dealing with a number of intertwined narratives in superhero comics; the spatial adventure of the Final Fantasy role-playing video games; World of Warcraft experience texts created through designers and fanatics; and the serial storytelling of The Wire.
Taken jointly, the multidisciplinary conversations in Third Person, besides Harrigan and Wardrip-Fruin's prior collections First Person and Second Person, supply crucial insights into how fictions are developed and maintained in very diverse sorts of media first and foremost of the twenty-first century.
Contributors: Rafael Alvarez, Richard A. Bartle, Michael Bonesteel, Stanford wood worker, Monte prepare dinner, Paul Cornell, Anne Cranny-Francis, Sam Ford, Chaim Gingold, A. Scott Glancy, Richard Grossman, Pat Harrigan, Matt Hills, Kenneth Hite, William H. Huber, Adriene Jenik, Henry Jenkins, David Kalat, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Norman M. Klein, Tanya Krzywinska, David Lavery, Robin D. legislation, Sarah Lewison, Henry Lowood, William E. McDonald, Matthew P. Miller, Jason Mittell, Stuart Moulthrop, Kate Orman, Sean O'Sullivan, Lance Parkin, Robert M. fee, Ren Reynolds, Trina Robbins, Ken Rolston, Dave Sim, Greg Stafford, Tamiko Thiel, John Tulloch, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Walter Jon Williams