'Death of an Author' Prophesies the Future of AI Novels

The first time I played the tabletop game Fiasco, it wasn't the story my friends and I made that blew me away. It was the realization that I had just experienced the limitless possibilities of collaborative writing, that the novels I loved featured just one way their narratives could have played out. Alice could have transformed the Mad Tea Party into Wonderland's first organic tea shop. Don Quixote could have devolved into a windmill-killer for hire. Later I realized the similarities between tabletop games and ways novelists challenge their narrative choices, from literary constraints to automatic writing to William Burroughs' cutup method.