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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 read our essay, "Can a Game be Literature?"

The works listed here have all been used in some way as background for TriadCity, our flagship game.
 
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Why buy through us? Three reasons:

1. It helps support the games. The commission we make on sales through our online store helps offset some of our operating costs. Many thanks for your support!

2. You'll probably save money. Because you're buying from amazon.com, you'll receive their standard discounts on most titles. These are often up to 30% off retail. Additionally, there's no sales tax on online orders; and now all orders of $49 or more receive free shipping as well. Not a bad deal, really.

3. These are great books. We read lots of books. (How many? Well, look at it this way: there are currently 1122 titles available here in our little bookstore, and those are just the ones I personally read this week. So back off, understand?) That is to say, these recommendations are the best in their categories. We know because we've used them to develop TriadCity.

 
 
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"Decades before the invention of the motion picture camera, the prose fiction of the nineteenth century began to experiment with filmic techniques. We can catch glimpses of the coming cinema in Emily Bronte's complex use of flashback, in Dickens' crosscuts between intersecting stories, and in Tolstoy's battlefield panoramas that dissolve into close-up vignettes of a single soldier. Though still bound to the printed page, storytellers were already striving toward juxtapositions that were easier to manage with images than with words."
-- Janet H. Murray,
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (info)

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