R. Lyle Skains conducts practice-based research into creating and publishing interactive digital narratives, manages Wonderbox Digital, and organizes the annual New Media Writing Prize, UK.

In Neverending Stories, R. Lyle Skains charts out the expanding and flexible category of digital fiction, rejecting historical genre divides to draw out essential connections between popular digital forms as varied as games, webcomics, and fanfiction. By putting the work of authors historically marginalized in discussions of the "computational" at the forefront, she offers an alternative history of digital fiction that points to an exciting and expansive future.

• DedicationList of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1. IntroductionPART I: DIGITAL FICTION CONTEXTS2. Innovation Origins3. Digital Fiction Emergence4. Digital Creativity: Democracy and CapitalismPART II: DIGITAL FICTION IN POPULAR CULTURE5. Evolution from Mainstream to Niche: The Case of Interactive Fiction6. It’s Not a Book, It’s Not a Game: Literary Games7. Everything Old is New Again: Ergodic Literature8. Hunting the Holodeck: Interactive, Alternative, and Immersive Realities9. Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Archontic Narratives10. ConclusionMediographyBibliographyIndex

R. Lyle Skains conducts practice-based research into creating and publishing interactive digital narratives, manages Wonderbox Digital, and organizes the annual New Media Writing Prize, UK.

In Neverending Stories, R. Lyle Skains charts out the expanding and flexible category of digital fiction, rejecting historical genre divides to draw out essential connections between popular digital forms as varied as games, webcomics, and fanfiction. By putting the work of authors historically marginalized in discussions of the "computational" at the forefront, she offers an alternative history of digital fiction that points to an exciting and expansive future.

• DedicationList of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1. IntroductionPART I: DIGITAL FICTION CONTEXTS2. Innovation Origins3. Digital Fiction Emergence4. Digital Creativity: Democracy and CapitalismPART II: DIGITAL FICTION IN POPULAR CULTURE5. Evolution from Mainstream to Niche: The Case of Interactive Fiction6. It’s Not a Book, It’s Not a Game: Literary Games7. Everything Old is New Again: Ergodic Literature8. Hunting the Holodeck: Interactive, Alternative, and Immersive Realities9. Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Archontic Narratives10. ConclusionMediographyBibliographyIndex

R. Lyle Skains conducts practice-based research into creating and publishing interactive digital narratives, manages Wonderbox Digital, and organizes the annual New Media Writing Prize, UK.

In Neverending Stories, R. Lyle Skains charts out the expanding and flexible category of digital fiction, rejecting historical genre divides to draw out essential connections between popular digital forms as varied as games, webcomics, and fanfiction. By putting the work of authors historically marginalized in discussions of the "computational" at the forefront, she offers an alternative history of digital fiction that points to an exciting and expansive future.

• DedicationList of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1. IntroductionPART I: DIGITAL FICTION CONTEXTS2. Innovation Origins3. Digital Fiction Emergence4. Digital Creativity: Democracy and CapitalismPART II: DIGITAL FICTION IN POPULAR CULTURE5. Evolution from Mainstream to Niche: The Case of Interactive Fiction6. It’s Not a Book, It’s Not a Game: Literary Games7. Everything Old is New Again: Ergodic Literature8. Hunting the Holodeck: Interactive, Alternative, and Immersive Realities9. Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Archontic Narratives10. ConclusionMediographyBibliographyIndex