Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. New York: The Free Press, 1997.

Murray has an almost utopic vision of the possible future of the computer based realities, where "enchanting worlds of increasingly refined visual delight that are populated by evocative fairy-tale creatures" would replace the "nightmare landscapes of the figting maze, in which we feel perpetually imperiled" (263). She theorizes that "participatory environments," such as multi-user domain games and other sites where the cybervisitors are creating their fictionalized world, will "merge with authored environments," more traditionally set up virtual spaces, where the game and its rules are already laid out (266). She admits that this could likely create a situatino where "tensions between the author and the participants may increase" (267).



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