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Audience Adventure Radio Hour - Interview with Demian Katz
KZSC Santa Cruz
English - November 07, 2018 01:48 - 31 minutes - 51.3 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsNews Arts news art culture interviews kzsc montereybay music pandemicene radio santacruz Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Bennett interviews Groom of the Tomb author, gamebook collector, and bibliographer Demian Katz. Demian describes how he got his start collecting and the origins of gamebooks.org, the definitive bibliography of interactive fiction. Tales of rare finds and the collector's frenzy that literally threatened to collapse his house! Demian has since donated his collection to Special Collections at UC Santa Barbara for safekeeping and future scholarship. A librarian himself, he discusses gamebooks' interdisciplinary place amongst literary history, computer science, game design, and their cousin in pop publishing, the cheap, mass produced melodramatic blockbuster "dime novels" of the late 19th century. Plus hope in the rediscovery of gamebooks in the Twitch era and the authors of today!
A few of Demian's gamebook recommendations:
Life's Lottery
Fabled Lands series
Lone Wolf
Lost Worlds (novel game systems)
Combat Heroes (novel game systems)
Steam Higwayman
Treasure Hunt (early example of the form)