info/if-bibliography.txt

                 Interactive Fiction Bibliography (04/97)
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Printed Books
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Dacosta, Frank.  _Writing Basic Adventure Programs for the TRS-80_.  Tab
    Books: Blue Ridge Summit, PA.  1982.

Hartnell, Tim.  _Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer_.  Ballantine
    Books: New York.  1984.

Krutch, John.  _Experiments in Artificial Intelligence for Microcomputers_.
    Howard Sams & Co.: Indianapolis, IN.  1986.

McGath, Gary.  _Compute's Guide to Adventure Games_.  COMPUTE! Publications,
    Inc.  1984.

Meehan, James.  _The Metanovel: Writing Stories by Computer_.  Garland
    Publishing: New York.  1980.

Menick, Jim.  _Basic Adventure and Strategy Game Design for the Apple_.
    Facts On File Publications: New York.  1984.

Mueller, Erik T.  _Daydreaming in Humans and Machines: A Computer Model of
    Stream of Thought_.  Ablex: Norwood, NJ.  1990.

Plamondon, Robert.  _Through Dungeons Deep: A Fantasy Gamer's Handbook_.
    Reston Publishing Company, Inc.: Reston, VA.  1982.

Vile, Richard C., Jr.  _Programming Your Own Adventure Games In Pascal_.
    Tab Books: Blue Ridge Summit, PA.  1984.


Theses
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Buckles, Mary Ann.  "Interactive Fiction: the Computer Storygame
'Adventure'".  Ph.D. Thesis, University of California at San Diego.
1985.

Laurel, Brenda.  "Towards the Design of a Computer-based Interactive
Fantasy System".  Ph.D. Thesis, Ohio State University.  1986.

Sloane, Sarah.  "Interactive Fiction, Virtual Realities, and the
Reading-Writing Relationship".  Ph.D. Thesis, Ohio State University.
1991.


Internet Text
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Nelson, Graham.  Inform manual, appendix A.  Location:
    <ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform/manual.text>
    Author's Email: nelson@vax.ox.ac.uk

SPAG (Society for the Preservation of Adventure Games), Kevin Wilson,
    ed.  Location: <ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/magazines/>

Oz Project.  An ongoing IF project at Carnegie-Mellon University.
    Location: <ftp://reports.adm.cs.cmu.edu>.  Also available via Web:
    <http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/oz.html>

Wilson, Kevin.  Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship.
    Location: <ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/info/authorship-guide>
    Author's Email: whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu

XYZZYnews, Eileen Mullin, ed.  Location:
    <ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/magazines/>


Compiled by Stephen Granade.  Any additions/corrections should be emailed to
sgranade@phy.duke.edu.  Comments are welcome.