Dont let Prousts despicable lies sully the joy of literature for you, though.
This week, its ITU Copenhagen Games Professor andBroken Rulesco-founder, Martin Pichlmair!
Mind if we have a nose at your bookshelf?
What are you currently reading?
I am currently over 1800 pages into the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson.
The three books of this trilogy are one long, wild ride through 17th century history.
Within a few pages it goes from swashbuckling pirate adventure to musings about the birth of science.
And then it throws in slapstick comedy.
And detailed social analysis.
What did you last read?
And then there is an overlaid different story that is about the dictionary itself and its history.
And everything is connected.
If Wikipedia was a game, it would take the shape of this book.
What are you eyeing up next?
Labatut writes about science and its role in the world.
But he takes the liberty to go beyond the usual boundaries of a biography.
Its hard to explain but I can absolutely recommend his earlier work When We Cease To Understand The World.
What quote or scene from a book sticks with you the most?
The origin of the title-giving Excession (Iain M. Banks).
The cities beyond the edge of medieval maps that lure the characters in Umberto Ecos Baudolino.
What book do you find yourself bothering friends to read?
What book would you like to see someone adapt to a game?
And that in 1974.
There are but a few books that feature a metagame this is one of them.
And yet, I press on.
The bravest man in games media, some say.
