Chris Messenger has reviewed the prequal to Passing On – Passing Off – which reveals more about Keever’s career as a basketball player. Messenger delves into the relationship between LeClair’s critical interest in the systems novel and his fictional work. Chris Messenger has reviewed the prequal to Passing On – Passing Off – which reveals more about Keever’s career as a basketball player. Messenger delves into the relationship between LeClair’s critical interest in the systems novel and his fictional work.

The reference to an “Airborne Toxic Event” is an allusion to Don DeLillo’s White Noise

On the social context for endless exploration in game narratives, see Jan Van Looy, who suggests that endless, inconsequential “discovery” could be an end in itself, consistent with a culture of flexible work and endless capital accumulation.

The conversion of the previously noncomputational into the computational evokes the debates over AI that, in his book The Mystery of Consciousness, John Searle succinctly summarizes and participates in. Searle’s position is that computational processes cannot simulate consciousness. The conversion of the previously noncomputational into the computational evokes the debates over AI that, in his book The Mystery of Consciousness, John Searle succinctly summarizes and participates in. Searle’s position is that computational processes cannot simulate consciousness.

The literary critical term that covers the phenomenon of one character trusting another more than the reader knows he or she should is dramatic irony. This term doesn’t apply cleanly in Deikto stories, however, given that a character’s trustworthiness (or another attribute) is assigned a numeric value. Unlike traditional conceptions of dramatic irony in which the reader knows more than the character, here the apparatus of the story itself bears the knowledge that the character lacks, but the reader does not have such insight. The literary critical term that covers the phenomenon of one charact… continue