... but long enough ago that I'd forgotten everything. :D It's good! Shame the author doesn't seem to have written anything else... :-/

The 'fake forum/chatroom' is a really interesting way to tell a story. I've mucked about with it a few times myself - I think the only one online is the New Perspective on Middle-earth forums, but I've done others (mostly chat-logs). I think it's because it makes the most outlandish ideas come across as accepted and everyday - time travel must be pretty ordinary if people are chatting about it on a website. ^_^

Not that this is original to chatrooms/forums - Dracula consists in large part of false-document letters and journals, which are aiming at the same effect (and of course Tolkien's Notion Club Papers are the minutes of meetings) - but I think the forum version actually works better, simply because it lets you write a real-time story.

Does anyone know of other examples of this type of writing? I'm wracking my brains (lightly - don't want to break them) but can't come up with any.

hS

PS: Unless the TCDA Noticeboard counts.