I was a fan of Sean Stewart's earlier novels set in Texas: Mockingbird, Galveston. I was vaguely aware that he had transitioned to ARG stuff but hadn't tracked it closely. Some friends played 'I Love Bees,' but I did not.
And now we have QAnon. Not that it is a purposely built ARG, exactly. There are certainly similarities in structure. Maybe Sean Stewart was right and these are simply the types of stories the Internet wants to tell.
Love the series and will mention this one in particular in a follow-up to yesterday's Doctor Eclectic,
I was a fan of Sean Stewart's earlier novels set in Texas: Mockingbird, Galveston. I was vaguely aware that he had transitioned to ARG stuff but hadn't tracked it closely. Some friends played 'I Love Bees,' but I did not.
And now we have QAnon. Not that it is a purposely built ARG, exactly. There are certainly similarities in structure. Maybe Sean Stewart was right and these are simply the types of stories the Internet wants to tell.
Love the series and will mention this one in particular in a follow-up to yesterday's Doctor Eclectic,
https://randallhayes.substack.com/p/mysteries-of-mental-illness
where I open with a short discussion of synchronicities, the evocation of which are a major feature of this kind of storytelling.
Man. I remember this one so well. It was amazing to see it slowly reveal itself over months and months.
I was on CNN talking about this before the gamemasters were revealed as all the press could find were players to interview!