I just read a good portion of Storytelling for Interactive Digital Media and Video Games by Nicholas B. Zeman, although I admit that I only read the heading of the middle half. Lots of books on game design start by trying to define games. It's usually the first chapter. In this book, the author doesn't even get around to defining games until three quarters of the way into the book, because he first has to explain foreign concepts like “what is a story”, “what can stories be used for”, “what is interactivity” and “what different media have been used to tell stories”. That's not an exaggeration. Games actually don't enter into the book until ¾ of the way in.

I'm sure the book will be of great interest to starfish aliens studying human culture who have never played a game or heard a story before. To the rest of us, not so much.