Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction

7 best books like Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (Nick Montfort): The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, Vellum, Murder in Grub Street, The Golden Age, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, Jack, Knave and Fool, Death of a Colonial

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Author	David Wallace-Wells
ISBN	0525576703

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...

Vellum

Author	Hal Duncan
ISBN	0345487311

An extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a fecund imagination that defies description.

VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURS

It's 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human;...

Murder in Grub Street

Author	Bruce Alexander
ISBN	0425155501

The crime appeared as easily solved as it was wicked. A Grub Street printer, his family, and two apprentices brutally murdered in their sleep. A locked building. And at the scene, a raving mad poet brandishing a bloody axe. Surely the culprit had been found, and justice would be swift and severe.

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The Golden Age

Author	Michal Ajvaz
ISBN	1564785785

Heir to the philosophical-fantastical tradition of Borges, Calvino, and Perec, The Golden Age is Michal Ajvaz’s greatest and most ambitious work.

The Golden Age is a fantastical travelogue in which a modern-day Gulliver writes a book about a civilization he once encountered on a tiny...

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Author	Peter Pomerantsev
ISBN	1541762118

When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war.

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our...

Jack, Knave and Fool

Author	Bruce Alexander
ISBN	0425171205

In this fifth Sir John Fielding mystery, the legendary eighteenth-century London judge takes on his most difficult case to date. John Fielding was famous not only as cofounder of London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, but also as a magistrate of keen intellect, fairness and uncommon...

Death of a Colonial

Author	Bruce Alexander
ISBN	0425177025

"A rich rewarding trip for everyone." --The New York Times

"Alexander's eye for period detail is sharp and subtle; he brings his historic England back to life in layers." --Chicago Tribune

When a nobleman is executed, his possessions are expected to go to the Crown, as he is the last...