Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel Fahrenheit 451, Author Ray Bradbury foresaw the day when books would be replaced by various forms of high-tech entertainment, including soap operas in which the viewer could participate. Books are still very much with us, but in a twist of fate that even the prophetic Bradbury did not anticipate, a new computer game named for his book allows players to take part in--and influence the outcome of--a drama set in the police-state world of Fahrenheit...
Bradbury is only one of several well-known authors who are collaborating with computer software companies in adapting their novels to "interactive fiction," an electronic form of literature that transforms the reader into an active participant in the plot. A version of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama is available in interactive form on a floppy disk (Telarium; $39.95). Michael Crichton (The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man) has actually created a software work from scratch: Amazon (Telarium; $39.95), which transports the player and a sidekick parrot named Paco into the jungles of South America in search of a lost...
...family therapist in La Jolla, Calif., insists that his patients bring in their parents and siblings to help dig out family-rooted problems. His couples may also take part in group therapy to see how other pairs are coping. Ian Alger, a New York therapist, uses a more novel technique: videotaping couples' visits. Instant replays are often so revealing that some partners begin to resolve their disputes almost immediately. He also lends the tapes to couples for a leisurely review at home. Says Alger: "They look for revealing body language and communications patterns...
...novel follows the lives of five Harvard men from their freshman registration in 1954 to 1983, the year of their 25th reunion. Brooklyn-born Segal is a member of this class of '58, although the closest the book gets to an artist-celebrity is Daniel Rossi, a California kid whose reputation as one of the world's great pianists is established faster than one can say veritas...
...Fortunately, some Harvard graduates learned how to write for grownups. With unintended irony, Segal includes a patch of verse by John Updike (class of '54) that says more about those years in five lines than the novel does in nearly 600 pages...