Escape from the Crazy Place

Escape from the Crazy Place

Interactive Novel

Escape from the Crazy Place, originally conveived by JJ Guest in 1984, is a collaborative work between about fifteen authors. In 2006 it was released online, described as an interactive round-robin novel. The novel works like a digital choose-your-own-adventure story, aided by hypertext and including familiar paratextual features like cover art and forwards by two of the authors, as well as a digital bookmark function. Released during the early adolescence of the internet, EftCP is a surrealist, post-modern piece of literature that uses its simple hypertext functionality to defy linear story structure while at times creating the illusion of an overarching narrative.

JJ Guest, Loz Etheridge, et al.

http://www.jjguest.com/eftcp.html

JJ Guest

02/23/20

Conner Tomlinson

Digital Image

Literature