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[labellementeuse]

Guys, I need some help. I'm writing about how web pages and books are structured differently. It's really easy to give examples for non-fiction (I'm probably going to talk about feminism 101 and TV tropes) but I'm really struggling to think of examples for fiction, especially narrative fiction, because all of the best examples I can think of are, of course, fanfiction. I'd really like to find some stuff that demonstrates flexible narration, like Crysothemis' Fix or Cesperanza's Scrabble; I'd also really like something like Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making that includes links to all parts (instead of just before and after parts) on each page, like most Big Bang fics do, for example. (I feel like before and after merely replicate the structure of the conventional book.)

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[cyphomandra]

Are you aware of Geoff Ryman's '253'? It started as a web page, but there's also a book form - 253 passengers on a tube train, 253 word descriptions of each of them, vast numbers of hyperlinks. Here - not my favourite of his works, but certainly interesting from a structural pov.

(and I saw this on china_shop's reading list, but obviously I am familiar with you from a previous Yuletide!)

[paxpinnae]

I don't know if your analysis includes graphic works as well as written ones, but once you get into infinite canvas territory you can have real fun. One quick example would be Knite by Yuumei. It's mostly set up like a traditional graphic novel/comic, but with some animated transitions that really help bring the story to life in ways that you don't get in either a cartoon or a flat image.