Now available for young readers to devour: stories of magic powers, hidden treasures, good battling evil, kids joining forces to save the world—and for good measure, a couple of Jeep-sized hot dogs. Boredom, be gone!
Back in the ‘80s and ’90s—during my time as a bookstore manager—zombies weren’t even on the radar when it came to genre fiction fodder. Sure, there were some well-written and innovative zombie-powered novels on the shelves (like Lansdale’s Dead in the West and Lumley’s Ship of Dreams, to name just a few) but, for the […]
“Bandersnatch,” Black Mirror‘s interactive Netflix narrative experience, grabbed a lot of attention over the holidays, but innovative as it is, interactive fiction of this sort isn’t anything new. From the classic, page-flipping kids’ books in the Choose Your Own Adventure series, to text adventures like Zork, to full-motion video games that made the most of […]
