Matt Dinniman

Matt Dinniman is an American speculative-fiction writer best known for the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. His work uses the visible rules of games to build fast comedy while keeping exploitation, spectacle, and resistance close beneath the surface.

Dinniman treats game mechanics as part of the plot rather than decoration. Carl must learn how the system scores him while recognizing that the announcers, sponsors, and viewers have interests of their own. The jokes are loud; the anger beneath them is not.

Start with Dungeon Crawler Carl. Earth has become an alien dungeon, and Carl must survive it with a newly talking cat and no trousers.