Nick Montfort
Biography
Nick Montfort is an interactive fiction author as well as a theorist and critic of new media. His interactive fiction is text-based and includes Book and Volume (2005), Ad Verbum (2000), and Winchester's Nightmare (1999). Montfort's book Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press, 2003) gives a history of the form and suggests some ways to understand it as both game and literature. Montfort was also co-editor, with Noah Wardrip-Fruin, of The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003), a book and CD-ROM that collects important articles and primary digital works from World War II to the beginning of the World Wide Web.
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