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When I read the title of this post, Jon Bois was the first thing that came to mind. 17776 is one of my all time favorite websites, and my goto example of amazing hypertext fiction.

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

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17776 was also my first thought once the author revealed he was talking about Bois. 17776 is incredible... and also about football of course (I mean, sort of)

My first thought was that the "novel about footbal" TFA was talking about simply _had_ to be 17776. And that whatever else had no chance of even being close to how mind blowing that story is. And lo, turned out to be a regular novel but by the same author. I'll go ahead and read it now, the man's brilliant.

17776 was something that I heard recommended by a bunch of game developers before anybody else. It's one of the most inventive pieces of science fiction I've ever read (watched? experienced?)

It's super cool -- so far, I'm not quite through it yet. It does have some similarity w/the story from "ST:TMP" though.

One of my best friends sent it to me and asked if I had read it. "No", "Do it, it's right up your alley", "What is it about?", "I'm not going to tell you, and don't google anything about it. Just dive in." It is soooo good.

This is incredible. I almost closed the tab when the text grew out of control, I thought it was a bug.

Are you sure it's supposed to do that? I remember reading this story there back when it was printed, and I don't remember the text doing that. I went to read it again a year or so ago, but couldn't, because the text started growing out of control and froze Firefox (as it just did for me now).

How do you actually read it?

Edit: hmm, if I very quickly scroll to the bottom of the page, I can click the image to go to the next page before Firefox gets too unhappy.

It's definitely supposed to do that, but only on mobile. Maybe it just hasn't been tested on Firefox (or recent versions of Firefox).

Firefox 99 on Windows slows down but eventually gets to the next page. Except for a quick interstitial image of a current time, the next page is here if you want to pick up the story: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football/chapter-1

It actually froze my thinkpad t490 on Firefox / debian. Had to do a button hard reset

Ahh! I thought the idea of 'to street' sounded familiar. 17776 is excellent.

Thanks for posting, this is amazing!

the sequel is also excellent

Fantastic. Thank you.

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