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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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Books About Myth
Ancient Astrology, Barton, Routledge 1994
Body Guards: Protective Amulets & Charms, Morris, Element 1999
Conversing with the Planets, Aveni, Kodansha 1994
Cults, Territory, and the Origins of the Greek City-State, De Polignac, U. of Chicago Press 1995
Greek Heroine Cults, Larson, U. of Wisconsin 1995
Mysteries of Demeter: Rebirth of the Pagan Way, Reif, Red Wheel/Weiser 2000
Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures, Kirk, UC Press 1973
Orpheus and Greek Religion, Guthrie, Princeton 1993
Pythagoras and the Delphic Mysteries, Schure, Kessenger 1997
The Bluesman: The Musical Heritage of Black Men and Women in the Americas, Finn, Interlink Pub. Group 1998
The Golden Fleece and Alchemy, Faivre, SUNY 1993
The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement, Noll, Free Press 1997
The Masks of God: Creative Mythology, Campbell, Arkana 1991
The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology, Campbell, Arkana 1991
The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology, Campbell, Arkana 1991
The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, Campbell, Arkana 1991
The Metamorphoses, Ovid, Harvest 1995
The Trumpet Shall Sound: A Study of 'Cargo' Cults in Melanesia, Worsley, OOP 0000
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"[The] dominant of postmodernist fiction is ontological. That is, postmodernist fiction deploys strategies which engage and foreground questions like ... "Which world is this? What is to be done in it? Which of my selves is to do it?" Other typical postmodernist questions bear either on the ontology of the literary text itself or on the ontology of the world which it projects, for instance: What is a world?; What kinds of worlds are there, how are they constituted, and how do they differ?; What happens when different kinds of worlds are placed in confrontation, or when boundaries between worlds are violated?; What is the mode of existence of a text, and what is the mode of existence of the world (or worlds) it projects?; How is a projected world structured? And so on."
--Brian McHale,
Postmodernist Fiction (info)
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