Is There a Difference Between Interactive Fiction and Traditional Fiction?

Michael: I think there are so many lines of thought in this dissertation that are things that people pick up later, even if it's not a dissertation that they've read or know about buckles is here at the beginning. She highlights like actual legitimate, like entire tracks within game studies that other people end up having to rediscover or reinvent. It's just it's fascinating in that way to see kind of these glimmers of future scholarship in this dissertation from 1985. And often written in such a way that it that there's obviously more fundamental in some ways because she's working from first principles.