Games as Litrachur

Costik is back with another thought provoking post. This time about games as literature and what is literature anyway.

But this points up the trickiness of the distinction. Literature (excluding that literature which is non-fiction) is fiction. All literature means is "the good stuff," and what constitutes "good stuff" is purely a subjective consideration, except that we have collectively decided to agree that anything sufficiently old that still has a readership qualifies by default. There's a hair's-breadth of difference between C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brien, but you'll find one under Literature and the other under Fiction.