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Language:	English
Publishers:	Crow Street Press -- United States (eBook) Pocket Books -- United Kingdom (paperback) Simon & Schuster -- United Kingdom (hardback)
Categories:	Complexity Level : Basic (No Game System) Format : eBook Format : Hardback Format : Paperback Genre : Contemporary Fiction Genre : Horror Genre : Science Fiction Target Age Group : Adults Writing Style : Present Tense Writing Style : Second Person

This book is no more complicated than a Choose Your Own Adventure book in terms of gameplay, but its story is among the most intricate and unusual works of interactive fiction I've encountered. Because of its complexity (and some of its subject matter), this is definitely a book meant for a mature audience.

Gamebooks

Life's Lottery

Related Documents

Structure Diagram

Life's Lottery Flowchart
Thanks to Callum MacKendrick for sharing this.

Related Links

Kim Newman & Eugene Byrne: The Alternate History Pages
This page is run in part by Life's Lottery author Kim Newman.
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/newmanbyrne/ (last verified: 2004-06-09)

User Comments

Is the book exactly like the e-Book? I've read the e-Book, and the sections don't seem to make sense from cover to cover like they're supposed to. There are also quite a few errors with the hyperlinks and whatnot, at least from the version that I got. Is the book more well-put together?

[Demian's response -- I haven't seen the e-Book, but I don't recall running across any major errors in the printed edition. As far as the book making sense from cover to cover, it's not that the random order of the paragraphs has any special meaning; however, there are scattered unlinked sections in between the regular ones that suggest why the main character is experiencing all of these random disordered events, thus sort of justifying all the incoherence. Not sure how this works in the electronic edition.]

[Waluigi Freak 99's response -- Oh, okay. I guess I didn't read far enough into it, then. By the way, you can pick up a copy of Life's Lottery on e-Book here.]

--Waluigi Freak 99