The Doomsday Brunette

Copyright 1994 by John M. Zakour.

This is the first Internet browsable, downloadable, interactive, science fiction, humorous, satirical, mystery electronic book. The complete Doomsday Brunette is available here in the form of a downloadable MS-Windows hypertext browser and a hypertext copy of The Doomsday Brunette. db101win.exe is an 724,858 byte self-extracting DOS executable and db101win.zip is an 709,088 byte PKZIP archive. You can get copies of these files by ftp if you prefer. Please read about The Doomsday Brunette for instructions before downloading a copy. There is no cost for this e-book.

This World Wide Web demo gives a good feel for the real program, so it can help you decide whether to download the real, full version or not. Please note that only the first three chapters of the e-book are presented in this demo.

Click on indicated words or phrases like these to see a definition of the phrase. Use the appropriate button in the program you're reading this with in order to move back to the story from a definition. To switch the point of view definitions are from, scroll to the bottom of the "page" and click on the line that looks like

Descriptions are from a realistic point of view.

and the point of view will be toggled. Please note that you can switch points of view by clicking on the above line right now, if you want.

At the end of each "page" of text you'll be able to choose where the story goes by clicking on a choice. The real version of the e-book keeps the whole story on the screen, chapter by chapter; this demo presents new pieces of the story on a fresh "page" whenever you make a choice.

Click here for fun stuff at the top of the Zstuff server.