Book at Lunchtime: Arcadia

A Book at Lunchtime discussion of Iain Pears' interactive novel
Arcadia “The Arcadia App is one of the most substantial and
interesting works of interactive fiction released last year” begins
Emily Short. In this Book at Lunchtime event for the TORCH
Humanities in the Digital Age series, the writer Iain Pears, with
the academic Sophie Ratcliffe and cross-media authors Alex
Butterworth, Emily Short and Richard Beard, discussed his new
novel, Arcadia, which takes the form of a print book and an
interactive app: offering a range of ways into an adventure story
set in 1960s Oxford and the fantasy Anterworld. In this video, the
panel talks about the book’s place within a growing corpus of
hypertext and digital forms of fiction which are allowing writers
to experiment with narrative and narrators, ideas of time,
world-building, the experience of reading, and the role of the
reader.