Space and Beyond

(Data and visualization adapted from Jeremy Douglass' Transverse Reading Gallery.)

General statistics

Pages of text109
Endings44
Paths98
Monotone paths41
Average pages read48.0
Shortest path (1)5: [1, 2, 4, 11, 26]
Longest path (2)19: [1, 3, 7, 16, 17, 33, 34, 48, 2, 4, 10, 20, 21, 36, 37, 53, 72, 90, 106]
Cycles (3)(1, 3, 7, 16, 17, 33, 34, 48, 2, 4, 10, 20, 21, 38, 52, 70, 71, 99, 1)(1, 2, 4, 10, 20, 21, 38, 52, 70, 71, 99, 1)(2, 4, 10, 22, 3, 7, 16, 17, 33, 34, 48, 2)(2, 4, 10, 20, 21, 38, 51, 67, 2)(2, 4, 6, 12, 13, 27, 43, 3, 7, 16, 17, 33, 34, 48, 2)
Most likely endings (3)[18, 19] (15% probability)
Least likely endings[101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116] (0.29% probability)
Average ending quality2.86
  1. A nebula passes, then you drift into a black hole.
  2. En route to Zermacroyd, you decide to "explore the knowledge within yourself" rather than seek formal education, and in so doing travel back in time 125 million years and find a T. Rex. In a panic, you reset time to the beginning and instead go to Phonon. After a nebula passes, you wait for help but mysterious creatures surround you and you go with them. You help them find a new planet and try to escape, and freeze time in an ambiguous ending.
  3. Multiple ways to return to the start through time warps or inexplicable happenstance.
  4. You fall into a black hole and are never heard from again; or you find a utopia inside the black hole.

Interesting pages

Pages reachable multiple ways[2, 3]
Pages with more than 2 choices4 (3 endings)
Nonstandard endings62: If you don't join them in their fight, you are vaporized. It is... The End BUT If you join them, turn to page 64.

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