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September 3, 2010
"The Mongoliad": A bite-size quasi Neal Stephenson epic
"This serial digital novel is being produced online by a team of writers , artists, hackers and sword-fighting geeks -- another big name involved is Greg Bear, also a veteran science fiction author."
May 26, 2010
The Mongoliad App: Neal Stephenson's Novel of the Future?
"This may, possibly, be one future of the novel: as an app. And who better to push the limits of writing than Neal Stephenson, an author whose novels have already explored weird and unusual corners of sci-fi, including intelligent books."
September 1, 2010
Neal Stephenson's Novel-Redefining Novel, "The Mongoliad," Launches, Online
"Ghengis Khan shook up the world in the 12th Century, and now in the 21st Century Neal Stephenson's novel about him may shake up the publishing world: It's partly interactive, partly social media, and wholly digital."
September 1, 2010
Mongoliad is live: Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear and friends create participatory, epic fantasy for the web
"The word here is epic, a swashbuckling swordplay novel with the sweep, charm and verve of the major Stephenson epics, such as System of the World. A very strong start and well worth the price of admission. This is a great experiment in new fiction business-models that welcome audience participation and work in a way that is native to the net."
May 28, 2010
Neal Stephenson and friends fight for the future of ebooks with "The Mongoliad"
"Though interactive novels have had snippets of movies and images in them since the mid-1990s, PULP is what makes The Mongoliad stand out as a possible way forward for post-print publishing. PULP makes this book into something that's truly the product of our collective imaginations."
December 10, 2010
Neal Stephenson’s digital novel The Mongoliad invades mobile
"Startup Subutai continues to charge ahead with its digital publishing experiment The Mongoliad. The writing team, which includes popular science fiction authors Neal Stephenson (who is the company’s chairman) and Greg Bear (its senior creative advisor), has now published around 15 chapters, and the company has also released applications for the iPhone and iPad."
November 29, 2010
How Neal Stephenson’s The Mongoliad is Revolutionizing Immersive Online Storytelling
"The Mongoliad is one of the most radical experiments in the history of publishing and writing that, if it works, could reshape the nature of both for generations. Yes, really."