written and produced by Holly Franking
"For the next generation
of readers, writers and viewers"
Negative Space CVN® is the story
of an English professor and his wife from Kansas City who are desperate to
conceive a child. Their fertility quest results in a burlesque series of ribald
and graphic sexual vignettes that "mingle with word play reminiscent of James
Joyce... What (Holly Franking's) doing is nothing less than trying to invent
a new form of literature," says George Gurley, book editor of THE KANSAS CITY
STAR newspaper.Not only is the plot about infertility
timely, but so is the form of this novel. NEGATIVE SPACE CVN® combines
print with software and video on CD-ROM. This novel does not just transfer
print to a computer screen nor is it interactive fiction. The computer screen
or page is where the CVN® magic happens. -- THE REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY
FICTION.
"The revolution of the word is alive
and well. Because video and computers have altered our perceptions of ourselves
and the world, it's not surprising that a new form of the novel now appears,"
says Mark Katzman, novelist.
NEGATIVE SPACE CVN® orchestrates
print, software and video with text, music, voice narrations and color graphics
to make reading this novel a truly postmodern experience. "Is this novel the
leading edge of the 'postmodern era'? Perhaps. But Holly Franking's hindmost
foot is happily still sunk back in rag and bone, says Curtis White, professor
and literary critic.
Hardware requirements: Windows and
CD-ROM. Retail price $12.00 plus S&H.
Diskotech, Inc. will exhibit Negative Space CVN® CD-ROM at BookExpo America
in New York June 3 -5, 2005.
Review
of NS by Curtis WhiteSee
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