The Ed Report, by William Gillespie and Nick Montfort
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Description
The Ed Report, written by William Gillespie and Nick Montfort, designed by Dylan Meissner, is a work of web-based serial fiction in the form of a government report released under the Freedom of Information Act. It was published in daily installments from May 24 to June 30, 2000 at edreport.com. It received honourable mention in the 2nd trAce/Alt-X New Media Writing Competition, judged by Shelley Jackson. It was first performed in 2000 at the Digital Arts and Culture conference in Bergen, Norway.
Reviews
"...a cunning piece of mimickry that manages to maintain an almost chinkless front of officialese while telling a funny, surreal, even touching story. Purporting to be a report on an ill-fated attempt by the CIA to employ civilians (including Bruce Springsteen) with a gift for ancient languages as code-talkers on a secret narcotics mission, and complete with documentary trimmings, it patches into the dynamics of rumor and urban myth to run its operation in the grey area between fact and fiction -- a project perfectly suited to the web, where grey areas abound. It also exploits the ease of internet publishing to resurrect the Victorian model of serial publishing."
- Shelley Jackson
Bibliographic Details
Published 2000-05-24 by Spineless Books.