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13:16 | 20-06-2010 | Lifeform, Literature | No Comments
к слову о книгопечатании — вот первые результаты нового проекта Нила Стивенсона:
And though I keep calling it a “book,” The Mongoliad is actually an app written for mobile devices (currently iPhone and iPad). I had a chance to look at an early version of the book for iPad this week, and [Jeremy] Bornstein walked me through its features.
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The Mongoliad began as visual media, not text. “A year ago Neal said he had an idea for a movie and some of us got together and were writing a screenplay and the settling,” Bornstein recalls. “The first part was set 200 years earlier than the [movie story], and that’s what we’re releasing as The Mongoliad. We aren’t doing a movie because we don’t have the skills to do that. Instead, we have software folks like myself, and everything we need to build this story.”
While Stephenson, [Greg] Bear, and others worked on the text, Bornstein developed the app backend, focusing on collaborative software. The group dubbed the result the “personal ubiquitous literature platform,” or PULP.
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Bornstein hinted that the book will eventually contain “a few games too.”
по ссылке так же более детальное описание проекта и одна картинка.