Truth or Fact: A Review of Paradise Killer (Odd Columns, #11)

I’m taking a short break from talking about politics to discuss a video game I completed recently, Paradise Killer by Kaizen Game Works. To an extent, this dovetails with my recent writing on mutant epistemologies. I say this because detective fiction, after its heyday in the earliest twentieth century, does one of two things: it either simply recapitulates the tropes of hard-boiled fiction as an imitation, or it delves deeper into questions of knowledge and how we know what we know.

Game Reviews, Written by: Cameron, Odd ColumnsCameron SummersMarch 26, 2021Paradise Killer, video games, Kaizen Game Works, Vaporwave, Detective fictionComment

Unpacking the Trash Can of Genre: Practical Literary Theory

When you select a genre and decide your going to produce a book, comic, film, or similar within it, you’re essentially taking a whole set of unexamined assumptions and saying that you’re going to abide by them to the exclusion of everything else. This is a mistake.

Analysis, Literary Theory, Written by: CameronCameron SummersNovember 18, 2019genre, hard boiled fiction, OuLiPo, Red Harvest, Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, Last Man Standing, Disco Elysium, Sherlock holmes, Pride and Prejudice, Ghost in the Shell, Detective fiction, Cyberpunk, Mad MaxComment