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brooksmosesSometimes one runs across something that one would never even think to imagine that one would be interested in reading, and yet, it turns out to be amazing and excellent and wonderful.
This is a post about Jon Bois's 17776, and its sequel, 20020.
It is a work of science fiction, set as one might guess from the title in the year 17776 (and then in 20020).
It's a multimedia web work of the sort that avant-garde literature theoreticians of the 1980s were trying desperately to invent; it contains photographs and text and interludes with videos that are mostly text chat with real-time-like timing delays created by the videos.
It is a story about people and how they change and stay the same, and about societies and how they change and stay the same.
It is a story about how people find their own meanings for life, in a world that is so utopian that there is nothing left that needs to be done and nothing left to do, and an eternity in which to do it.
It is a story about how there are stories everywhere in the real world around us, and about the human need to create stories.
It is a story about college football.
And it is a thing that I very much recommend that you read, because it is utterly fascinating.
This is a post about Jon Bois's 17776, and its sequel, 20020.
It is a work of science fiction, set as one might guess from the title in the year 17776 (and then in 20020).
It's a multimedia web work of the sort that avant-garde literature theoreticians of the 1980s were trying desperately to invent; it contains photographs and text and interludes with videos that are mostly text chat with real-time-like timing delays created by the videos.
It is a story about people and how they change and stay the same, and about societies and how they change and stay the same.
It is a story about how people find their own meanings for life, in a world that is so utopian that there is nothing left that needs to be done and nothing left to do, and an eternity in which to do it.
It is a story about how there are stories everywhere in the real world around us, and about the human need to create stories.
It is a story about college football.
And it is a thing that I very much recommend that you read, because it is utterly fascinating.
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Date: 2020-11-29 06:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-11-30 08:53 am (UTC)The thing is, of course, I have utterly no interest in football. Like negative numbers of interest. But this kind of crackfic, where you posit some ridiculous premise and then play it out to all its logical conclusions and *make it all make sense* -- and forget the multimedia, imagine the amount of time the *research* must have taken -- is very much my thing.
I dimly remember 17776 but not the details so at least I can reread that while waiting....