Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz, winners of the Webby & SXSW Interactive Awards for their digital novel The Silent History, have a new digital novel out from Atavist Books that pushes the boundaries of the published word.
The story and the user experience of The New World reflect the digital experience. The book tells the tale of a tragic love story between two doctors. The storytelling concept was conceived in cyclical structure, and is comprised of three cycles. Readers can swipe between pages and follow the story in different directions based on how they swipe. The reader reads through Cycle #1 and when they are finished, the content page reappears revealing Cycle #2.
Content-wise the story in Cycle #2 moves backwards in time, as readers swipe in the opposite direction. Readers might get the sense that the book has ended with Cycle #2, but once they have completed the text, Cycle #3 appears. This section of the book is read scrolling downwards.
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Novelist Lisa See will headline a reading event for her new book, China Dolls. Hear her on Monday, June 16th at Barnes & Noble (Union Square branch) starting 7 p.m. (New York, NY)
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Eli Horowitz, former managing editor and publisher of McSweeney’s, and Russell Quinn, co-founder of the digital studio Spoiled Milk, have set out to explore how we consume literature with a new serialized story app that changes based on the reader’s location and on a growing database of user-generated input.
The Silent History, promises to be “a comprehensive account of the condition and its consequences, encompassing the years 2011 through 2043.” It goes beyond a Choose-Your-Own adventure novel with different potential endings, by taking advantage of the reader’s GPS location.
Buzzfeed explains how it works: “readers download an app and then receive daily doses of fictive oral history (‘Testimonials’) that they can read wherever. This is where the main plot unfolds. But the real innovation comes in the related, secondary piece: the geo-tagged ‘Field Reports’ that can only be downloaded when the reader is standing in a specific place, as shown by the mapping interface on the app. Currently, there are between 300 and 400 Field Reports written for locations around the world, but that will grow as readers add their own stories.”
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