![]() ![]() Speaking of computer games, have you checked out my Kindle Vella offering yet? I teamed up with Red Tash and Kat Bradbury to create a science fiction adventure serial, under the collective pen name of Kaye Elsie. Thanks for hanging in there with me on this experimental story, told in an experimental way. I rather liked the effect, and I hope you did, too. So, as you can tell, I employed a text-to-speech converter on the website, "" using the "Alice" personality. When I thought about reading the story to you, I thought it might be difficult to convey the feel of a computer game in my reading. Of course, it's not an interactive story, it's only written in that style. If you haven't experienced this form of interactive fiction before, I hope you still enjoyed this presentation of the medium. When I wrote this story, I had the idea of telling it in the form of an old text-based interactive fiction computer game like, Colossal Cave Adventure, Zork, or Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'll also add a content warning: this story contains a loss of agency. Rather than spoil it here in the introduction, I'll save my explanation for after the story is done being told. ![]() Perhaps some of you will recognize the format. I was in a rather experimental mood when I wrote it. The story I have for you is another one of my Bradbury Challenge stories. For this episode of the Alien Beer Podcast, I thought I'd do something a bit different. ![]()
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