1 ==== General resources
=====
Eastgate Systems
Publisher of Storyspace,
long the gold standard application for
hypertext fiction before possibly
being supplanted by the web;
publisher of much of the
"canon" of hyperlit, beginning with Michael
Joyce's
"afternoon" in like 1989; also publisher of "Figurski at
Findhorn
on Acid."
Electronic Literature
Organization (ELO) http://www.eliterature.org/
Resources including the most comprehensive directory of writers
working in new media genres.
Word Circuits
Site maintained by local
(
including a gallery with recent
work.
Electronic Book Review
(EBR) http://www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/servlet/ebr?command=view_weave
Theory, scholarly
debates, reviews.
2 ===== Holeton, "Figurski
at Findhorn on Acid" (CD-ROM, Storyspace) =====
Figurski catalog
description at Eastgate http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Figurski.html
Brief interview with the
author @ eNarrative http://www.enarrative.org/profiles/profile04.html
Nice review in Stanford
Magazine
(they
wouldn't say anything mean about a Stanford alum) http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2002/novdec/showcase/review.html
Fun "review" at
Porkopolis.com http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/7484/admin/figurski.htm
Critical so obviously
wrong-headed review in EBR :) http://www.electronicbookreview.com/v3/servlet/ebr?command=view_essay&essay_id=parkerele
3 ===== A few examples of
native web hypertext fiction/digital narrative =====
Martha Conway, "Girl
Birth Water Death" http://ezone.org/ez/e2/articles/conway/jump1.html
A
classic hypertext story using a simple branching structure.
The
A
premier site for hypertext lit/digital art convergence. Articles,
interviews, short fiction,
poetry. See especially archives for
1999-2000
and 2001.
The Unknown
http://www.unknownhypertext.com/
A collaborative and
ongoing self-reflexive work mixing real-life,
nonfiction, fiction, and satire by
a bunch of wild and crazy guys.
Caitlin Fisher,
"These Waves of Girls" http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/
Won the
2001 ELO Award for Fiction.
Alicia Felberbaum,
"holes linings threads" http://www.felber.dircon.co.uk/
Beautiful work investigating (along with its nominal subject matter)
the relationship of words/text
to image.