bergdaemon's comments

I've always had a soft spot for side-scrolling text layouts. I think the way such layouts break "Skim-The-Page, Extract-the-Juice, Run-Away" behavior on the web is interesting. It focuses one on the text; getting people focused on a text is useful, if you want them to contribute to an ongoing story.

That said, the UI needs a lot of work -- obviously, because this is new and different and rough. Finding ways to balance your UI's dualistic requirements (reading vs writing) with the accessibility requirements of diverse writers on diverse platforms is clearly going to be one of your major challenges going forward. Good luck!

It's a tie between two strange books.

Alfred Bester's _The Stars My Destination_: It's deeply flawed, wackily 1950s, has ridiculous tech, and is one of the most entertaining books I have read.

Stanislaw Lem's _Solaris_: Strange, dry, bordering on boring, breaks every single law about overusing exposition I can think of...and somehow turns that into a riveting meditation on the nature of guilt and consciousness.