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		<title>The 21 Steps by Charles Cummings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The 21 Steps&#8217; is an interactive story or hypertext by spy writer Charles Cummings told by taking steps through London on Google maps, making it a piece of digital fiction. The different choices the reader makes determine the story, so that everyone who reads the text will have a different response to it and even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the21steps.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10472526&amp;post=3&amp;subd=the21steps&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignnone" title="Charles Cumming" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/16/CharlesCummingNcooper1.JPG/250px-CharlesCummingNcooper1.JPG" alt="" width="250" height="312" />&#8216;The 21 Steps&#8217; is an interactive story or hypertext by spy writer Charles Cummings told by taking steps through London on Google maps, making it a piece of digital fiction. The different choices the reader makes determine the story, so that everyone who reads the text will have a different response to it and even get a different story from it.<br />
&#8216;The 21 Steps&#8217; is based around the central idea created by Penguin books &#8211; the &#8216;We Tell Stories&#8217; project. This project consists of six stories, written by contemporary writers and based on classic books, and attempts to only tell stories that can be read online. In this case, Cumming has taken his ideas from &#8216;The 39 Steps&#8217;, by John Buchan.</p>
<div>Others include:</div>
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<li><a title="Toby Litt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Litt">Toby Litt</a>, Slice; based on The Haunted Dolls’ House by <a class="mw-redirect" title="M R James" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_R_James">M R James</a> A troubled American girl is brought to London by her parents to make a fresh start. The story unfolds through <a class="mw-redirect" title="Livejournal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livejournal">Livejournal</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Wordpress" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordpress">WordPress</a> and <a title="Twitter" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter">Twitter</a> accounts.</li>
<li><a title="Kevin Brooks" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Brooks">Kevin Brooks</a>, Fairy Tales; based on Fairy Tales by <a class="mw-redirect" title="Hans Christian Anderson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Anderson">Hans Christian Anderson</a> This interactive story allows readers to input information and make &#8220;<a class="mw-redirect" title="Choose your own adventure" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_your_own_adventure">choose your own adventure</a>&#8221; selections to create their own personalised fairy tale.</li>
<li><a title="Nicci French" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicci_French">Nicci French</a>, Your Place and Mine; based on <a title="Thérèse Raquin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Raquin">Thérèse Raquin</a> by <a class="mw-redirect" title="Emile Zola" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Zola">Emile Zola</a> A story about two people, Terry and Laurence, that was typed in real time, from 7 to 11 April 2008. During this time readers observed the trains of thought of the two as their relationship changed, and saw how their opinions of the situation differed. In the end Laurence ends the relationship, though both sides believe it to be for different reasons.</li>
<li>A story by <a title="Matt Mason" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mason">Matt Mason</a>; based on <a title="Hard Times" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Times">Hard Times</a> by <a title="Charles Dickens" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></li>
<li><a title="Mohsin Hamid" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohsin_Hamid">Mohsin Hamid</a>,The (Former) General in his Labyrinth; based on <a class="mw-redirect" title="Tales from the Thousand and One Nights" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Thousand_and_One_Nights">Tales from the Thousand and One Nights</a>.</li>
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<p>The story is told through Google&#8217;s information bubbles with brief statements and images that take the reader from the streets of London to Edinburgh, Scotland with plenty of action and mini-cliffhangers along the way.</p>
<div>Visit &#8211; <a href="http://wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/"><span style="color:#810081;">http://wetellstories.co.uk/stories/week1/</span></a> - to read the text yourself!</div>
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