guardian.co.uk: "It's not a film, it's not a game and it's not a book ..." muses Kate Pullinger. Digital fiction is certainly a tricky beast to categorise, as Pullinger well knows. She is co-creator of an award-winning online multimedia novel, Inanimate Alice, which tells its story through a combination of photography, illustrations, video, music, animation, and narrative text overlaid on the visuals. "It's a kind of hybrid," is what she plumps for in the end, adding "I think that when a new form emerges, part of the problem is how to figure out what to call it, how to describe it - but what I do know is that I like to make it and people like to read it when they find out about it..." More
