Comments on: Morpheus Biblionaut

By: Nick Montfort

Nick Montfort — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:03:32 +0000

Jill, thanks for the post and comment, and for letting me know about the broken ppg256 link. I posted this from my phone and couldn’t easily check it. Should be working now. I enjoyed presenting on my tiny poetry generators, by the way, and have had lots of good conversations with people here about them and about related topics.

By: Jill Walker Rettberg

Jill Walker Rettberg — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:15:56 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I enjoyed reading it - at first I hated the no-pause-no-rewind thing but then I settled in with some knitting, put my feet up and really enjoyed the slow read experience. Wrote a bit about it on my blog :)

The link to ppg265 seems broken, though?

By: jill/txt » william gillespie and Travis Alber: MORPHEUS 11

jill/txt » william gillespie and Travis Alber: MORPHEUS 11 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:57:22 +0000

[...] Nick Montfort linked to a rather wonderful new piece that poet William Gillespie read from yesterday at the &Now festival: MORPHEUS 11, the story of a poet sent to Alpha Centauri to test a nuclear bomb that can destroy a plant, who returns to Earth to discover that Earth has a ring instead of a moon and that there is – perhaps – no longer life there. [...]

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:00:23 +0000

Very captiving. how was it created? what software was used?

By: Rubes

Rubes — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:24:15 +0000

Wow, that was great. I like pieces like that, thanks for the heads up.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:17:49 +0000

I love this. Even the loading animation is alluring. What I wondered about, though, as I watched was: if I were writing some analysis of this, or even just wanted to review a certain part, I'm kind of out of luck.

This also raises the question of whether, as an author, you would want people to be able to skip forwards and back -- it certainly demanded my attention in a way a work whose pace was entirely user-driven would not have.