Argument The web-based narrative fiction is a new form of narrative fiction. It is a change in form due to the effects of fast-moving technological development, the author’s desire to create original work and the reader’s curiosity about what will come next in the world of literature. A writer who has taken the web medium into account and used to it compliment the meaning his story is Geoff Ryman with his web-based narrative fiction, 253. Geoff Ryman has used an elaborate structure in 253
, using web functions such as links to network his work, mirroring the setting and the concept of this narrative fiction. Ryman has used this new medium to take free reign on structure of story and page, freeing the story from the constraints of the written page, incorporating links and nodes which network this story into something quite different from the original narrative fiction. The authors of web-based narrative fictions must make adjustments to their writing to cater for this new medium. Web-based narrative fiction can be non-linear and may appear to not have a set chronological story line. The authors must take this into account when using this new medium in order to completely utilise it and give the reader a different experience than narrative fictions they have read before. This narrative fiction is also interactive, causing the reader disorientation every time they click on a link and move between car and passenger, similar to the disorientation that some of the character passengers experience when they see their stop fly past the window. Ryman utilises this medium to compliment his original ideas in 253.