![]() 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. (after text, highlight to read) Hello again, dear listener. 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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The quiet, questing hero here is Gershon Loran, "a scared twentieth-century Jew with visions." His parents were killed in a riot while on a 1930s landbuying trip to Israel he's grown up in Brooklyn with his uncle and aunt, fragile beings shattered by their son's WW II death. But this time the doubts along the way are so textured, so centrally disturbing, that this flawed, richly challenging novel (perhaps too challenging for some of Potok's usual audience) offers considerably more to the non-believer than Potok's previous fiction. Yes, Potok ( In The Beginning, The Chosen) is once again following a young Jewish protagonist on a journey that ends, somewhat too perfunctorily, with a reaffirmation of Faith. ![]() ![]() Anyway, back to this thing: I fell in love with the concept of Ryhope Wood. Note that love for and actually frolicking in nature are two different things, and these days, you can’t pay me to camp in the woods for even a night unless I still have access to the Internet and other joys of modern technology. Given that I grew up in a rustic neighborhood that had long been urbanized, I always had a love for nature. As luck would have it, I chanced upon it in the university library, became intrigued by the lovely cover and back cover synopsis, and checked out to book. ![]() At that time, there wasn’t an Internet for me to order it off an online bookstore, and I had to depend on the whim and mercy at the local bookstore to read anything. I first read this book a few years after it first came out in 1984. Sadly, I’m not good at pretending that much. 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