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1. TOC: A New-Media Novel

   TOC is a multimedia epic about time: the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world. An evocative fairy tale with a steampunk heart, TOC is a breath-taking visual novel, an assemblage of text, film, music, photography, the spoken word, animation, and painting. It is the story of a man who digs a hole so deep he can hear the past, a woman who climbs a ladder so high she can see the future, as well as others trapped in the clockless, timeless time of a surgery waiting room: God's time. Theirs is an imagined history of people who are fixed in the past, those who have no word for the future, and those who live out their days oblivious to both.

   (Source: Author's description on TOC website)

   Scott Rettberg - 02.03.2011 - 22:07

2. Morpheus: Biblionaut

   The story of a poet sent to Alpha Centauri to test a nuclear bomb that can destroy a planet, who returns to Earth to discover that Earth has a ring instead of a moon and that there is - perhaps - no longer life there. The narrative is told linearly and lasts for about 20 minutes, with no opportunity to rewind  - it’s worth watching in a single setting though, both for the story itself and for the grungy space visuals created by Travis Alber: a scratched metal background with a window through which to watch the stars passing by, and dream images superimposed on or maybe reflected in the dull, stained metal.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 13:42

3. Blue Lacuna

   Author description: Blue Lacuna is a long-form work of parser-based interactive fiction containing nearly 400,000 words of prose and natural language source code, an explorable novel telling a serious story about the nature of choice and happiness. Lacuna simplifies standard IF syntax with a unique interface: to advance the story, readers type highlighted keywords indicating objects of interest, directions to explore, or topics to pursue during conversation.

   Blue Lacuna’s story revolves around a complex reactive character, the castaway Progue, who evolves over the course of the story based on the reader’s interactions with him. The climax of the story and resolution of Progue’s character arc—whether he becomes a friend, a mentor, a lover, a sycophant, or one of eight other archetypes—is dependent on how the reader treats him in up to 70 distinct scenes and conversations over the work’s ten chapters. The structure of Blue Lacuna is thus best represented not by a branching tree but a braided rope, with countless ways each reader may braid the threads of story into a personal and meaningful narrative.

   Aaron Reed - 20.06.2012 - 18:59

4. Radiant Copenhagen

   "Klokken fem samme morgen havde en organisation ved navn Radiant Copenhagen udsendt en pressemeddelelse, hvori de udgav sig for at være en nystartet underafdeling af selvsamme Wonderful Copenhagen og bekendtgjorde, at en replika i overstørrelse af den tidligst kendte udgave af arten homo sapiens, Jing Chang-kraniet fra Kina, skulle vikariere for havfruen, mens hun var nede hos kineserne. »En fantastisk idé, som måske kunne skabe lidt røre i andedammen,« som en talsmand fra Radiant Copenhagen formulerede det. Er det billedkunst? Litteratur? Performance? Det er gudskelov det hele på en gang og med garanti noget fjerde. At ville skelne er fuldstændig at overse hybridens potentiale. Men allerede som elektronisk kunst og litteratur repræsenterer det, takket være sit kæmpe omfang og sin gennemarbejdede form, et meget ambitiøst forsøg i dansk sammenhæng. " -Sitert fra Christian Yde Frostholms rapport on Radiant Copenhagen: http://cyf.dk/klumme/etvirkeligtparal.html Medvirkende: Maja Zander, Kaspar Bonnen, Stig W Jørgensen, Palle R.

   Sissel Hegvik - 29.04.2013 - 15:27

5. The Big Plot

   This is a romantic-spy story rendered into the genre of Recombinant Fiction. Four characters told a fiction using dialogues shown on several media channels. The cloned identity of a real spy was used to portray a story about the political and sentimental weakness of our era characterised by a dysfunctional sociality being created by social media communications. Actions in public environments completed the set of stages upon which the story was acted and audiences had an active role by unfolding and creating other pieces of fiction. The drama deconstructed language and symbolism of ideologies by remixing characters' lives and identities with real-world patterns. The work has been exhibited as an installation and there is also a web version.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 06.06.2013 - 11:51

6. ¡Más respeto que soy tu madre!

   The blog, written by Hernán Casciari and illustrated by Bernardo Erlich, has been edited in Castilian by Plaza y Janés, in Spain, 2005, and Editorial Sudamericana, Argentina, 2006. The novel has been translated into several languages. In November, 2005 "More respect, I am your Mother" it was chosen by Deutsche Welle International, Germany, like the best weblog of the world. In 2009 the history was adapted to the theater by the actor and governing Argentinian Antonio Gasalla and it will be taken to the movies by Juan José Campanella.

   Maya Zalbidea - 22.08.2013 - 21:18

7. A Trace

   Explained very simply, this piece is a story about a man being presented with a mysterious object that is either:

   1. Directions upon which he must act or
   2. Documentation of his own origins

   If they are the former, then the events that are listed are the events that proceed. If they are the latter, the events that proceed are his re-encounter with how he came into being not as an organism, necessarily, but as a someone who believes in space, physicality, reason, etc.

   The piece alternates between two locations: "in here", which is where the narrator builds a space in order to orient himself in relation to the question the mysterious object presents, and "that sort of place", which is where the narrator is presented with new information that both helps and antagonizes him. The juxtaposition of the closed, structured space of "that sort of place" with the open sprawl of "in here" invokes the question that the narrator circles around - whether he can recreate or reconstruct his own beginnings or origins to the point of creating the closed, structured space in which he exists now.

   Cassie Spiral - 03.04.2020 - 19:40

8. Don Juan en la frontera del espíritu

   Es una novela histórica en formato Web. Don Juan Valera, durante su embajada en Washington se enfrenta a los rebeldes cubanos y se enamora de la hija de Bayard, el Secretario de Estado del presidente Cleveland. Esta novela puede ser leída como novela web, en formato e-book o en versión impresa.

   Maya Zalbidea - 03.01.2014 - 18:41

9. El jardín de los relatos inacabados

   El jardín de los relatos inacabados (The Garden of Unfinished Stories) by Félix Remírez is a digital work in which the reader explores a simulation of the scenery of a garden to discover ten beginnings of stories that, eventually give him/her an idea to continue a longer narrative. The fragments of stories are like creative seeds. The texts are not obvious to find and they oblige the reader to surround the whole garden.

   Maya Zalbidea - 15.03.2014 - 20:06