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Book Review
Book Review: Video Gaming in Science Fiction by Jason Barr. McFarland, 2018
2020
Overview
Alongside the ubiquity of video games, democratization of geek culture and diversification of gamers, Barr identifies in the corpus of video game-focused sf a characteristic fascination with the erosion of the barriers between games and 'gamespace' - the perception that the real world is governed by rules as unfair and arbitrary as many video games. [...]there is a danger in these texts for characters to become addicted to games or become permanently absorbed into the game world. Another barrier to interpretation is the nebulousness of the texts that Barr examines. Since the number of sf texts which depict video games is purportedly remarkably small, the lack of a clear listing of them, their authors and publication dates, seems like a perverse oversight.
Publisher
Science Fiction Foundation
