British mathematician, poet, and game designer. Creator of Inform, a programming language for Interactive Fiction. Co-editor of the literary magazine Oxford Poetry from 1998-2000, and managing editor of the publishing imprint Legenda
since 2004. Married to Emily Short.
His works include:
Video Games
- Galaxy's Edge (1984)
- Curses (1993)
- Balances (1994)
- Jigsaw (1995)
- The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet (1996)
- The Tempest (1997): Adaptation of The Tempest.
- Ruins (2001)
- The Reliques of Tolti-Aph (2006)
Other
- "The Craft of the Adventure" (1995)
Provides examples of:
- Creator Couple: Nelson created Inform, a programming language for Interactive Fiction. His wife Emily Short contributed majorly to version 7.
- Epigraph: Some of his works start with a quote from another work.
- Curses begins by quoting Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
- Jigsaw begins by quoting T. S. Eliot's "Gerontion".
- The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet begins by quoting the final paragraph of "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
- Ruins begins by quoting the Popol Vuh.
- "The Craft of the Adventure": Including the introduction, each essay apart from "Varnish and Veneer" opens with one or more quotes.
- Pen Name: The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet and Ruins were published under the name "Angela M. Horns", an anagram of "Graham Nelson".
