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The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, after all, remains perhaps the most cherished example of a gamebook: interactive novels with branching narratives that once beguiled a whole generation.
By the 1980s, Livingstone had turned to writing, creating the Fighting Fantasy series of novels such The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, which let readers do battle with mystical beasts.
The Versions of Us could be described as Sliding Doors, except with three stories instead of two; Life After Life, without all the messy deaths; or The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, without (slightly disappointingly) a big fire-breathing dragon.
The potential for "non-linear reading" isn't peculiar to digital texts: Ali Smith's How to Be Both, Mark Danielewski's Only Revolutions, Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and Ian Livingstone's The Warlock of Firetop Mountain all have aleatory structures.
It has been a long journey since 27 August 1982, when The Warlock of Firetop Mountain was published.
It also comes just over 30 years on from The Warlock of Firetop Mountain's release - the first in a series of role-playing game (RPG) books which he helped write.
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