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We've assembled a collection of resources which we find interesting. Use the menu at left to explore resources re games, online literature, role playing, interactive fiction, and the future of reading.

Once upon a time we'd also assembled a large-ish collection of SmartMonsters members' home pages. Remember home pages? Facebook has killed them off. We've kept a few that we think are noteworthy.

Please use the fora to suggest resources which you believe will interest the community. Thanks!

"The space of a fictional world is a construct, just as the characters and objects that occupy it are, or the actions that unfold within it. Typically, in realist and modernist writing, this spatial construct is organized around a perceiving subject, either a character or the viewing position adopted by a disembodied narrator. The hetertopian zone of postmodernist writing cannot be organized in this way, however. Space here is less constructed than deconstructed by the text, or rather constructed and deconstructed at the same time. Postmodernist fiction draws upon a number of strategies for constructing/deconstructing space, among them juxtaposition, interpolation, superimposition, and misattribution."
-- Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction (info)