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# Check out a shortlist of the year’s best interactive fiction.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/hey-its-interactive-fiction/
- Published: 2011-12-01T19:46:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:29:17.000Z
- Description: Like a really nerdy cockroach, interactive fiction-those text-only computer games of the pre-graphics era-will live forever. Rock, Paper Shotgun has posted a link to the best short interactive fiction of the year. Taking the main gong this year is Taco Fiction by Ryan Veeder, which is an agreeably w
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Like a really nerdy cockroach, [interactive fiction](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/reviews/review-patanoir?ref=killscreen.com)\-those text-only computer games of the pre-graphics era-will live forever. *Rock, Paper Shotgun* has posted a link to the best short interactive fiction of the year.

> Taking the main gong this year is *Taco Fiction* by Ryan Veeder, which is an agreeably wry and downbeat tale of a feckless gunman attempting to rob a dirty fast food joint.  
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> It’s silly, but sharply-written and smart at breaking the fourth wall without actually breaking the fourth wall. Hot on its heels is *Six*, which documents a a game of hide and seek at an Australian child’s birthday party, which is a simply lovely concept.

Play *Taco Fiction* [here](http://www.ifcomp.org/comp11/play.php?id=201&ref=killscreen.com), view the whole (mostly playable!) list [here](http://www.ifcomp.org/comp11/info.php?ref=killscreen.com).

*\-Drew Millard*

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