PRE-ORDER - Pamphlet Nine - This Map is Yours, or How Videogames, their Forms and their Art Have Saved Me

PRE-ORDER - Pamphlet Nine - This Map is Yours, or How Videogames, their Forms and their Art Have Saved Me

calque ideas

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Calque Ideas provides an opportunity for writers to think aloud, using their own experiences and knowledge to approach topics in an accessible and attractive way.

Here's how a story can start: the Knight, a little bug with a broken blade, appears in a ruined village. Or here's another beginning: the Fox washes up on the shore of a mysterious land. The narrative of certain videogames, the innocent abroad, the unknowing and partial saviour, the quest with no signposts or handholding, is a powerful metaphor for what it is like to face a world that makes few allowances for those who are in any way diverse. In this highly moving set of linked personal essays, Martin Cahill shows us how videogames can function as healing objects, providing a vocabulary and a set of tools that have allowed him to negotiate with the pressures placed on him both from within and without.

  • author: Martin Cahill
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Martin Cahill is an Ignyte Award-nominated writer living just north of NYC and works as the Campaign Manager for Erewhon Books. He’s a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop of 2014 and a member of the NYC-based writing group, Altered Fluid. He's a contributor to Critical Role: Vox Machina - Stories Untold and author of the forthcoming novella, Audition For The Fox, coming from Tachyon Publications. You can find his fiction work in Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Shimmer Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. His short story, “Godmeat,” appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 anthology. Martin writes, and has written, book reviews, articles, and essays for Tor.com, Catapult, Ghostfire Gaming, Book Riot, Strange Horizons, and the Barnes and Noble SFF Blog. He also has multiple design projects under his belt with Ghostfire Gaming such as Grim Hollow: Valikan Clans and The Seeker's Guide to Enchanting Emporiums. You can find him online at @mcflycahill90.


 

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