Table of Contents

Part 1 A new medium for storytelling: Lord Burleigh's kiss; Harbingers of the Holodeck; from additive to expressive form. Part 2 The aesthetics of the medium: immersion; agency; transformation. Part 3 Procedural authorship: the cyberbard and the multiform plot; Eliza's daughters. Part 4 New beauty, new truth: digital TV and the emerging formats of cyberdrama; Hamlet and the Holodeck?.

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[A] brilliant look at the future of storytelling. -- James Coates, The Chicago Tribune Hamlet on the Holodeck reaches beyond the scope of interactive narrative and encompasses the global possibilities of emerging technologies. -- Stan Diehl, BYTE

About the Author

Janet H. Murray is Ivan Allen College Dean's Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Inventing the Medium: Principles of Interaction Design as a Cultural Practice (MIT Press).

Reviews

[A] brilliant look at the future of storytelling.—James Coates, The Chicago Tribune

Hamlet on the Holodeck reaches beyond the scope of interactive narrative and encompasses the global possibilities of emerging technologies.—Stan Diehl , BYTE

[A] brilliant look at the future of storytelling.

-James Coates, The Chicago Tribune
Hamlet on the Holodeck reaches beyond the scope of interactive narrative and encompasses the global possibilities of emerging technologies.-Stan Diehl , BYTE

There's something a bit threatening and yet more than a little thrilling about the idea central to Murray's work: Can we already be at the cusp of a bona fide new medium of communication, one that will marry the power of the narrative with the vast capabilities of the computer? Murray, a longtime humanities computing guru at MIT, insists that we are, convincing us that the attraction of writers for cyperspace is as irresistible as it is persistent. Already, she argues, numerous novelists, playwrights and filmmakers are poised for the move toward multiform stories, digital formats, and, of course, increased interactivity. Murray's ruminations are dramatic, compelling, and almost as hypnotic as drama itself, be it real (and steeped in tradition) or virtually imagined. Heartily recommended for scholars and all fanatics of the brave new world.‘Geoff Rotunno, "Tri-Mix" Magazine, Goleta, Cal.