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You've never experienced a novel like this. ""TOC"" is a multimedia epic about time - the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world. An evocative fairy tale with a steampunk heart, ""TOC"" is a breath-taking visual novel, an assemblage of text, film, music, photography, the spoken word, animation, and painting.It is the story of a man who digs a hole so deep he can hear the past, a woman who climbs a ladder so high she can see the future, as well as others trapped in the clockless, timeless time of a surgery waiting room: God's time. Theirs is an imagined history of people who are fixed in the past, those who have no word for the future, and those who live out their days oblivious to both. A new media hybrid, ""TOC"" re-imagines what the book is and can be. Produced as a DVD for playback on personal computers (both Macs and PCs), ""TOC"" retains the intimate, one-on-one experience that a reader can have with a book as it draws on the power of other art forms to immerse readers in an altogether new multimedia story.

TOC: A New Media Novel

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    A DVD-ROM by Steve Tomasula, Stephen Farrell

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: 30/03/2009
      ISBN13: 9781573661522, 978-1573661522
      ISBN10: 157366152X

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      Book Synopsis
      You've never experienced a novel like this. ""TOC"" is a multimedia epic about time - the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world. An evocative fairy tale with a steampunk heart, ""TOC"" is a breath-taking visual novel, an assemblage of text, film, music, photography, the spoken word, animation, and painting.It is the story of a man who digs a hole so deep he can hear the past, a woman who climbs a ladder so high she can see the future, as well as others trapped in the clockless, timeless time of a surgery waiting room: God's time. Theirs is an imagined history of people who are fixed in the past, those who have no word for the future, and those who live out their days oblivious to both. A new media hybrid, ""TOC"" re-imagines what the book is and can be. Produced as a DVD for playback on personal computers (both Macs and PCs), ""TOC"" retains the intimate, one-on-one experience that a reader can have with a book as it draws on the power of other art forms to immerse readers in an altogether new multimedia story.

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