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253, or Tube Theatre is a novel by Geoff Ryman, originally created as a website in 1996 ( http://www.ryman-novel.com/ ), then published as a paper book titled 253: The Print Remix in 1998. The print version won a Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and slipstream fiction. ... Jump to: navigation, search The front page of the English Wikipedia Web site. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1998(MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The Philip K. Dick Memorial Award is a science fiction award sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, and named after science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. ...


It is about the interactions between 253 people on a Tube train traveling between Embankment station and Elephant & Castle on January 11, 1995. The basic structure of the novel is explained in this quote from the foreword:-1... Embankment station, April 2002 Embankment tube station is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster. ... Bakerloo line entrance Elephant & Castle station in Elephant and Castle in the London Borough of Southwark, England consists of a main line railway station, serving various suburban stations within south London, and a tube station. ... Jump to: navigation, search January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

There are seven carriages on a Bakerloo Line train, each with 36 seats. A train in which every passenger has a seat will carry 252 people. With the driver, that makes 253. The Bakerloo Line is a line of the London Underground and coloured brown on the Tube map. ...

Each character is described in a separate section containing 253 words. In the online version, hypertext links led to other characters who are nearby or who have some connection to the current character; in the print version, the links are partly replaced by a traditional index. The reader can proceed from one character to another using these devices or can read the novel in positional order, e.g. from one train car to the next, but there is no overall chronological order except in the final section. In computing, hypertext is a user interface paradigm for displaying documents which, according to an early definition (Nelson 1970), branch or perform on request. ... Look up Index in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Index can be defined as: an ordered list, plural indexes a number or variable, plural indices. ...


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253 (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (217 words)
253, or Tube Theatre is a novel by Geoff Ryman, originally created as a website in 1996 (http://www.ryman-novel.com/), then published as a paper book titled 253: The Print Remix in 1998.
It is about the interactions between 253 people on a Tube train traveling between Embankment station and Elephant and Castle on January 11, 1995.
In the online version, hypertext links led to other characters who are nearby or who have some connection to the current character; in the print version, the links are partly replaced by a traditional index.
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