Eight years in the making, Deadbooks — a text- and audio-based series about aliens, ghosts and small-town horror — is finally going live.
On Monday, Vermont-based sci-fi guy Hasso Wuerslin launches the first chapter in his "hyperserialization" experiment.
What’s that mean? "It’s a mashup of storytelling techniques from such mediums as film, TV, radio, print that could only exist because of the distribution freedom offered by the net," says Wuerslin.
Get past the borderline-cheesy introductory graphics, and the Deadbooks teaser (embedded) hints at a densely packed mythology that draws on The X-Files and Stephen King, with a little David Lynch-style creepiness thrown in for good measure. Bringing the story to digital life are 30 actors and 40 musical groups that collaborated with Wuerslin on the project. Over the next 31 weeks, a new episode will debut every Monday.
In a note to Wired.com, Wuerlin writes: "There may be purists out there who think I’m trying to kill the novel but I disagree. Why shouldn’t the novel stretch out in new directions?"
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