The Reader Takes the Wheel: How Interactive Fiction Is Dismantling the Myth of the Single Story
Interactive and branching narratives have long been dismissed as novelties—the domain of video games and children's paperbacks rather than serious literary inquiry. That dismissal is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. As a new generation of authors and digital platforms transforms the architecture of storytelling itself, interactive fiction is emerging not as a gimmick but as one of the most philosophically honest forms the novel has ever taken.
