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John M Ford
 
Date of birth: 10 April 1957
Date of death: 25 September 2006
Country Of Origin: America
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" A scenario isn't a story that the gamemaster reads to the players, it's an outline for improvisational storytelling. "

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" A simple genre-fiction validation is the hero's winning the high-noon gunfight and being embraced by the schoolmarm while the bad guy is carried off to Boot Hill. "

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" Again, the elements of story - plot, character, conflict - are common, but the format is quite different; gamemastering is improvisational and reactive, written fiction isn't. "

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" Albin Ronay is well-informed and highly placed, but he's not omniscient; he may even know (or believe he knows) the chain of events, but for what he considers to be sound social and political reasons he's not going to publish it. "

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" And, in the way of much farce (Feydeau in particular), many of the characters create or complicate their awkward situations by trying to avoid being caught in embarrassing circumstances. "

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" At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe. "

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" But my perception is of a great plurality of laughter out there, and that was the book's sole and exclusive intention. "

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" Contemporary speech is as loaded with reference and allusion as any other, possibly more so; the fact that the allusions are to tabloid headlines or what happened on Buffy last night doesn't change that. "

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" Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. "

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" I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading. "

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" I like live interaction, am not much interested in RPing with strangers, and my taste in computer games runs to solo strategy games like Civilization and, of course, Railroad Tycoon. "

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" I want to come at it from the characters' angle, and trust the reader to decide what the moral implications are. "

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" I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made. "

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" If all anthropologists were military personnel whose only contact with the groups they studied was in situations of armed conflict (even if not actual violence), the picture they provided of those cultures would probably be less than rounded and objective. "

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" If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book. "

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