"simple yet elegant hypertext design" -- Robert Coover, The New York Times Book Review
They were as devoted as Romeo and Juliet, Bogart and Bacall, Lennon and Ono.
They expected the world to envy them. When it didn't, they became simply more convinced that theirs was a love the world could not understand. Were they visionaries, or just crazy?
Decide for yourself, based on what you read, in what order. Each one-page scene is cross-referenced to four other scenes, forming a web of surprise and delight.
One of the first ambitious uses of HyperCard for hypertext fiction,
The Perfect Couple
by Clark Humphrey
ISBN 1-884511-02-3
Macintosh (Requires HyperCard) $24.95
About the author:
Clark Humphrey
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Deena Larsen's Century Cross, like The Perfect Couple, uses an abstractly-defined hypertext form to create a narrative framework.
Another very early hypertext, The Election of 1912, also used external links to provide linkage outside the text frame.
This early style of hypertext is enjoying renewed popularity among Web writers.
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