6 pieces of new media fiction, each beginning with a line from one of 6 classic novels, i.e. Alice in Wonderland. (via 3qd)

My fave, I think, is the Google Maps-based “The 21 Steps” (below) but that may say more about my interest in Google Maps as an avant garde medium than the story itself, which is, IMHO, overly explanatory about new media, i.e. defining what a memory stick is, as if people don’t know….

Still, I enjoyed the stories, even if most were more interesting experiments than literary successes. “Hard Times” is sort of like those cheeky-cutesy illustrated pages of states you find in Wired or GOOD magazine, except less cheeky and cutesy.”Slice” is blog based — two blogs actually, one written by a girl and the other by her parents, both about a hare-haunted house. Neither are particularly enticing.

A couple — “Fairy Tale” and “The Former General,” are “choose your own adventure” stories. I made one myself, narcissistically dubbed “Sielitale.” Read it.

I’m v. interested in the collaborative, real-time writing method used in “Your Place and Mine” — but why does the girl have to be so fucking pathetic? At least the guy gets killed off….

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