Fable is a first person role-playing game set in the city realm of Albion. The city is full of riches & poverty magic works but industry is coming. The royal family who run the city have a dark past & its secrets rule the present. Past versions of the game have been set in loosely medieval & renaissance times. The new version launched to coincide with the book will take the city into the industrial revolution launching a war between industry & magic. The game is unique for the richness of the created universe & for the way the actions of the character are reflected in its appearance & the responses of NPCs to it: if you eat a lot you become fat if you get into a lot of fights you get scarred & people become wary of you. The interaction of player & game the richness of the world makes the franchise unusually appropriate for a tie-in novel & the novel will include an interactive element.