Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Planetfall | 1988 | George Alec Effinger | Buy |
| 2 | Wishbringer | 1988 | George Alec Effinger | Buy |
| 3 | Enchanter | 1989 | George Alec Effinger | Buy |
| 4 | Stationfall | 1989 | George Alec Effinger | Buy |
| 5 | The Zork Chronicles | 1990 | George Alec Effinger | Buy |
| 6 | The Lost City of Zork | 1991 | George Alec Effinger | Buy |
George Alec Effinger wrote six novels based on Infocom’s popular text adventure computer games. Published between 1988 and 1991, the books adapt games like Planetfall, Wishbringer, Enchanter, and entries in the Zork series into prose fiction.
The novelizations were part of a broader trend in the late 1980s of adapting popular games into books. Effinger brought his professional storytelling skills to the material, giving the games’ often minimal plots a fuller narrative treatment.