At Wired, Shoshana Berger profiles designer, programmer, and Rumpus contributor Russell Quinn, whose new project, The Silent History, will begin its serial publication soon.
The e-book is divided into six parts, each part then divided into smaller, ten to fifteen minute “episodes”, which will be delivered wirelessly to the readers device every weekday for a month. The plot of the novel deals with a generation of children being born without speech, and the reader, in addition to the episodes, will learn more about the plot from geolocated “Field Reports” — site specific snippets which will provide backstory and, perhaps more importantly, a level of interactivity that has yet to be reached in the e-book market.
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