Narrative strategies for vast fictional worlds across a variety of
media, from World of Warcraft to The Wire. The ever-expanding
capacities of computing offer new narrative possibilities for
virtual worlds. Yet vast narratives-featuring an ongoing and
intricately developed storyline, many characters, and multiple
settings-did not originate with, and are not limited to, Massively
Multiplayer Online Games. Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, J.
R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Marvel's Spiderman, and the
complex stories of such television shows as Dr. Who, The Sopranos,
and Lost all present vast fictional worlds. Third Person explores
strategies of vast narrative across a variety of media, including
video games, television, literature, comic books, tabletop games,
and digital art. The contributors-media and television scholars,
novelists, comic creators, game designers, and others-investigate
such issues as continuity, canonicity, interactivity, fan fiction,
technological innovation, and cross-media phenomena. Chapters
examine a range of topics, including storytelling in a multiplayer
environment; narrative techniques for a 3,000,000-page novel;
continuity (or the impossibility of it) in Doctor Who; managing
multiple intertwined narratives in superhero comics; the spatial
experience of the Final Fantasy role-playing games; World of
Warcraft adventure texts created by designers and fans; and the
serial storytelling of The Wire. Taken together, the
multidisciplinary conversations in Third Person, along with
Harrigan and Wardrip-Fruin's earlier collections First Person and
Second Person, offer essential insights into how fictions are
constructed and maintained in very different forms of media at the
beginning of the twenty-first century.
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