Multiple participants

Not only are computer-based forms of such fiction becoming widely available in new interactive forms, where the reader can participate actively in shaping the story, but network versions allowing for multiple participants are now emerging.

In terms of their potential for elaboration, and for a much increased payoff in suspense and personal engagement, networked interactive fiction games are a logical evolution both of current popular fiction and of arcade and video games. Their attractions will, of course, remove their participants yet further from the kind of engagement that has generally been considered appropriate for literary texts; as a result, literature, at least in North American culture, may be relegated to a status even more marginal than the one it occupies now.

Thus the revolution in network communications will perhaps bring about changes in the status of literature more radical than anything that we can envisage emanating from literature departments.

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