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From: David Samuel Myers <dmyers@ic.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Re: AI in IF
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Adam Thornton <adam@fsf.net> wrote:
> Attempts to have character drive narrative, rather than the other way
> round, have typically led to dull, aimless stories, in my experience.  I
> suspect that this is likely to be even more the case in IF than it is in
> static fiction.

As a highly tangential side note, there is a new, long-awaited novel which
just came out that attempts to take on this task head first-- "The
Corrections", by Jonathan Franzen. Some meta-information is available:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/magazine/02FRANZEN.html

This link requires free subscription and will self-destruct (i.e. become
non-free) in a few days. A book review dated today is available on the
same site.

-david
