Let’s start with the London Tube Map, this way we will bear the whole picture of the tube in our mind. Getting familiar with our surroundings (even the imaginary ones) makes things easier in life…
And now, the (Bakerloo) line involved in the 253 Journey (from Embankment station to the Elephant and Castle):
Canadian author Geoff Ryman has won 14 awards for his stories and ten books, many of which are science fiction.
His novel Air (2005), won a John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the James W .Tiptree Memorial Award, the Sunburst Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award. Most recently his novelette Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy) (2006) has been nominated for the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award.
Much of his work is based on travels to Cambodia. The first of these The Unconquered Country (1986) was winner of the World Fantasy Award and British Science Fiction Association Award. His novel The King’s Last Song (2006) was set both in the Angkor Wat era and the time after Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
His other mainstream fiction includes Was (1992), a novel about the American West viewed through the history of The Wizard of Oz which has been performed as a play and a musical in the US.
His interactive web novel 253: a novel for the Internet in Seven Cars and a Crash, in which 253 people sit on a London tube and are each described in 253 words, won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for best novel not published in hardback. The published Print Remix of the same novel (1998) is his most popular book.
As well as being an author Geoff helped lead the UK government onto the web, starting a web design team at the Central Office of Information in 1994. He also led the teams that designed the first official British Monarchy and 10 Downing Street websites, and until recently worked on the UK government’s flagship website www.direct.gov.uk.
He is currently at work on a new historical novel set in the United States before the Civil War.
Source: The University of Manchester
Here you can find a few articles on “253” and its author, Geoff Ryman, for the Spanish-speaking audience:
A warm welcome to you, who somehow – and maybe randomly (or not) – have arrived to this weblog, a small piece of the never-ending net. This is a blog on an hypertext, a hypernovel written by Geoff Ryman titled “253: A novel for the Internet about London Underground in seven cars and a crash“. It will be developped in the oncoming weeks…