Consider the Consequences, the first known choice-based narrative text, on Internet Archive

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Is it the same one as this one?

1930’s Consider the Consequences!, the First Book to Offer a Choice-Based Branching Narrative

Hi all, I recently completed a preservation project that might be of interest to those curious about the history of interactive fiction, in this case, of a path not taken. As I learned several years ago from Jason Dyer’s A Very Brief History of Gamebooks, Consider the Consequences! is a 1930 book by two women, Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins, that appears to be the first published work of fiction that provides the reader control of a branching narrative through explicit choices. Ie, choose…