Or is it going to be bad because gaming fiction is almost always bad?
In general, gaming fiction is bad because a) the skills involved in running a game and writing a novel are DIFFERENT, and b) good gaming tropes are different from good fiction tropes. It sounds like the conception is at least potentially good novel material (that is, that she might have avoided problem b), which would only leave question is whether or not she's a good novelist.
Now I'm curious if it's any good. We'll see if I'm curious enough to read it.
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Date: 2008-07-11 09:13 pm (UTC)In general, gaming fiction is bad because a) the skills involved in running a game and writing a novel are DIFFERENT, and b) good gaming tropes are different from good fiction tropes. It sounds like the conception is at least potentially good novel material (that is, that she might have avoided problem b), which would only leave question is whether or not she's a good novelist.
Now I'm curious if it's any good. We'll see if I'm curious enough to read it.