![]() ![]() ![]() Myst: The Book of Atrus is a story that details the background behind the story of the CD-ROM, much like J.R.R. ![]() Doubtless the y realized this, and approached Wingrove as an expert novelist, to help them accomplish a seamless transition from computer game to novel. The fact that the Millers chose to write the book themselves rather than sharecrop it to a third party showed an extreme level of hubris. A novel based on the game was inevitable, given the rich source material. MYST is more than a game in another respect as well now, with the publication of Myst: The Book of Atrus written by the game’s authors, Rand and Robyn Miller, in collaboration with David Wingrove (author of the Chung Kuo series of science fiction novels). The game works, they say, because it is as rich in its complex storyline as it is in its state-of-the-art graphics. From people who have played it, I know that MYST is more than a game, it is an experience–an immersion into another world, where things are strange and wonderful. But I would have had to have been living in a fissure in the earth to be totally clueless about MYST, the phenomenally popular CD-ROM game that has become multimedia’s first bestseller and first classic. As Howard Cosell titled his autobiography, “I never played the game.” I don’t even have a CD-ROM drive yet. ![]()
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