What is SmartMonsters?

SmartMonsters is a new kind of game company, delivering challenging, high-quality games for grownups free via the Web. Our flagship offering, TriadCity, is a large-scale multi-user role playing game with a literary orientation, currently in beta.

Games For Smart Grownups

SmartMonsters' games are not for everyone. We write for adults with fairly rich educational and cultural backgrounds. We assume our players like to read, and know how to type. We don't write for kids. If this sounds like you, welcome! Click here to find out more about TriadCity, our flagship!

"I will formulate ... a general thesis about modernist fiction: the dominant of modernist fiction is epistemological. That is, modernist fiction deploys strategies which engage and foreground questions such as ... "How can I interpert this world of which I am a part? And what am I in it?" Other typical modernist questions might be added: What is there to be known?; Who knows it?; How do they know it, and with what degree of certainty?; How is knowledge transmitted from one knower to another, and with what degree of reliability?; How does the object of knowledge change as it passes from knower to knower?; What are the limits of knowledge? And so on."
--Brian McHale,
Postmodernist Fiction (info)

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