Amid onscreen narrative that illustrates Julia’s ever-declining health into dementia, you trek through various paths in a forest–giving you a taste for what is to come. Everything seems perfect, but trouble quickly interlopes upon paradise. Right from the start, Firewatch feels like a game that will require heartfelt, weighted decisions on your part. The initial story is presented in a choose-which-side manner: either this or that. As the player, you start off by making rather inconsequential decisions concerning Henry and Julia’s relationship. Henry, a bar-hopper and seemingly lost soul, starts a love affair with Julia, who quickly becomes the center of his life. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and meets a woman named Julia. Read our previous Narrative Analysis article here, covering Oxenfree.įirewatch starts off with Henry’s personal life trials as a prelude to the main story. I must warn that spoilers follow as we analyze the plot and narration of Camp Santo’s indie adventure title, Firewatch. Taking into account the lackluster gameplay, the dialogue serves as the majority of Firewatch’s appeal as well. The conversation amongst these two characters is the bulk of the game’s mercurial narration. Nevertheless, it’s still worth discussing the hidden gems and disappointing plot points found within Firewatch most notably the stellar dialogue between Henry and Delilah, all over a handheld walkie-talkie. My review of Firewatch, as well as Nick Calandra and my YouTube ending discussion, highlight many of the faults within the gameplay and story alike. Its story is far from clichéd, which is a good first step in telling a masterful tale. " Two Hearts" by Peter S.No matter your opinion of the overall game, Firewatch undoubtedly taps into a visceral part of the human psyche." The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link (2006)."Basement Magic" by Ellen Klages (2005)."The Empire of Ice Cream" by Jeffrey Ford (2004)." Hell is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang (2003)."Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams (2001)."'Mars is No Place for Children", by Mary Turzillo (2000)."The Flowers of Adult Prison" by Nancy Kress (1998)."Lifeboat on a Burning Sea" by Bruce Holland Rogers (1997)." The Martian Child" by David Gerrold (1995)." Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield (1994)." Danny Goes to Mars" by Pamela Sargent (1993)." Tower of Babylon" by Ted Chiang (1991)."At the Rialto" by Connie Willis (1990)." Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger (1989)." Rachel in Love" by Pat Murphy (writer) (1988)."The Girl who Fell into the Sky" by Kate Wilhelm (1987)." Portraits of His Children" by George R." The Quickening" by Michael Bishop (1982)."The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop (1981)."A Glow of Candles, a Unicorn's Eye" by Charles L." The Screwfly Solution" by Alice Sheldon (1978)." The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov (1977)." San Diego Lightfoot Sue" by Tom Reamy (1976)." If the Stars Are Gods", by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford (1975)." Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" by Vonda N." The Queen of Air and Darkness" by Poul Anderson (1972)." Slow Sculpture" by Theodore Sturgeon (1971)." Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" by Samuel R."Mother to the World" by Richard Wilson (1969)." Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber (1968)." The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth" by Roger Zelazny (1966).The novelette references Engle's experience with the Black Plague while time-traveling in the 14th century. The idea of a time-traveling history department at Oxford University, introduced in this novelette, was also used in her later novels Doomsday Book (1992), To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997), and Blackout/All Clear (2010), as was the character of Professor James Dunworthy.Īlthough Willis' writing of "Fire Watch" predates the production of Doomsday Book by about a decade, Kivrin Engle, the main character of Doomsday Book, also appears as a minor character in "Fire Watch". "Fire Watch" (1982) was included in Willis' short-story collections Fire Watch (1984) and The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories (2013). The story won both a Hugo Award for Best Novelette and a Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
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