TOC: A New Media Novel

Tomasula, Steve

ISBN 10: 157366152X ISBN 13: 9781573661522

Verlag: Fiction Collective Two, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

You've never experienced a novel like this. ""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. A new media hybrid, ""TOC"" re-imagines what the book is and can be. Produced as a DVD for playback on personal computers (both Macs and PCs), ""TOC"" retains the intimate, one-on-one experience that a reader can have with a book as it draws on the power of other art forms to immerse readers in an altogether new multimedia story.

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"With stunning visuals, a compelling and complex narrative, a gripping soundtrack, and a user-friendly but satisfyingly sophisticated interface, Tomasula's TOC is one of the few pieces of digital media that feels fully integrated and profoundly literate. It brings us to the trailhead of the genre's future, and then takes us a good way down the path."Brian Evenson "TOC is an entrancing digital novel that explores temporality's elusiveness and how, ultimately, the more we think about time, the less we really know about it. Reminiscent of Borges, Calvino, and Ballard, TOC functions less through plot than thesis, less through character than idea. Steve Tomasula's latest is nothing short of brilliant."Lance Olsen

Opinión:

""TOC" is an entrancing digital novel that explores temporality's elusiveness and how, ultimately, the more we think about time, the less we really know about it. Reminiscent of Borges, Calvino, and Ballard, "TOC" functions less through plot than thesis, less through character than idea. Steve Tomasula's latest is nothing short of brilliant."Lance Olsen "With stunning visuals, a compelling and complex narrative, a gripping soundtrack, and a user-friendly but satisfyingly sophisticated interface, Tomasula's TOC is one of the few pieces of digital media that feels fully integrated and profoundly literate. It brings us to the trailhead of the genre's future, and then takes us a good way down the path."Brian Evenson "TOC is an entrancing digital novel that explores temporality's elusiveness and how, ultimately, the more we think about time, the less we really know about it. Reminiscent of Borges, Calvino, and Ballard, TOC functions less through plot than thesis, less through character than idea. Steve Tomasula's latest is nothing short of brilliant."Lance Olsen

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• Verlag: Fiction Collective Two
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 157366152X
• ISBN 13: 9781573661522
• Einband: DVD-ROM
• Anzahl der Seiten: 100