 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
The World Wide Web is, of course, a huge and wonderful hypertext -- a docuverse. Many sections of the web, however, are not particularly hypertextual. This page collects a selection of those web sites that are most interesting and sophisticated in their use of hypertext structure.
Eastgate Web Workshop | Literary Journals | Fiction | Nonfiction
The Eastgate Reading Room
Original hypertext for the Web.
Literary Journals and Web 'Zines
- Mark Amerika's center of avant-pop
- A web-borne revival of a revered literary journal. Fine work, marred at the moment (June 1999) by a very sluggish server.
- The literary journal of trAce, a British online writing community.
- The hypertext annex of a revered literary journal.
- A journal for teachers of writing in webbed environments. Many of the papers it publishes are interesting hypertexts, albeit the limitations of the Web -- latency, absence of dynamic links, featuritis -- are often evident.
- A promising new hypertext literary journal from the University of Queensland.
- A web review of original hypertext fiction, edited by Edward Falco.
- Brown University's hypertext magazine.
- Elizabeth Fischer's fine hypertext journal.
- A hypertext literary magazine, edited by Jeff Parker.
Hypertext Fiction on the Web
- Multimedia hypertext fiction by M. D. Coverley. "the sun and the sand seem as one...."
- a short hypertext fiction by Deena Larsen, author of Marble Springs and Samplers.
- Hypertext poetry by Robert Kendall, author of A Life Set for Two.
- Short fiction by Edward Falco, author of A Dream with Demons. "From cobbled shadows something taunts an inward eye"
- Short fiction by Michael Joyce, author of afternoon, a story and Twilight: A Symphony. He set out thinking there would be a slow disappearance of the things he considered overwhelming. . .
- Tree fiction by Gavin Inglis, illustrated by Paul Shade. --Tom. I'm positive. You'd better get a test.
- by Rick Lazarus. An illustrated tale of renegade replicants. Extensively linear in the introduction, with richer linking as the story grows.
- Interlinked multimedia montage explores the story of Vietnam. By Jenny Weight.
- A new and important hypertextual book tour, by William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, Dirk Stratton and Frank Marquardt. Novelist Robert Coover writes that "one of its more impressive achievements is to locate a frame (the endless tour) that allows for a great range of wildly variant stories without need of a linear chronology."
- by William Powhilda, third-prize winner of the First Salt Hill Hypertext Contest. "Unusual people breed unusual things," she says to me through the music. I like her already.
- by Jim Jones. A fictional newspaper whose publisher permits writers to create fictional news stories.
- by Adnan Ashraf. Winner of the first NYU Press Prize for Hyperfiction.
- by Pratik Kanjilal. Winner of the first NYU Press Prize for Hyperfiction.
- by John Delacor. An extended, hypertextual meditation on Japan (and, especially, the image of the Japanese woman)
- Stuart Moulthrop's ambitious and curious web fiction deserves much more attention than it has received. Michael Shumate gives it a rare "Highly recommended" in Hyperizons.
- A small (37 spaces) hypertext story by Rick Pryll.
- By Michael Shumate, compiler of the invaluable compendium, Hyperizons
- Matthew Miller, an American trip. (Subscribers only)
- Martha Conway. Carolyn Guyer wrote in Feed that this is " well enough written, but accumulates to monotone....One of the better examples of working within Web constraints. In truth, this fiction begs for a fuller hypertextual form. I'd like to see it on disk."
- Harry Goldstein
- Michael Shumate writes that " The story's multilinear structure is conservative and somewhat illusory--all paths quickly return you to the same narrative line and lead to the same conclusion. While I don't find this particular story satisfying, it nevertheless bears reading because Burne can write."
- A collaborative fiction, directed by Christy Sheffield Sanford.
- Hypertext fiction by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Chris Spain and Kirstin Kantner.
- Noah Wardrip-Fruin.
- Adrianne Wortzel
- " *COVEN PRIDE* is a weekly forum dedicated to unclean collaboration between pseudonymous witches and warlocks..." from the friends and relations of "Bobby Rabyd," creator of LSD-50
- A hypertext fiction by Judy Malloy, Tom Igoe, Chris Abraham,, Tim Collins, Anna Couey, Valerie Gardiner, Joseph Wilson, and Doug Cohen.
- Or, the Discovery of Television Among the Bees; an interlinked experience by filmmaker David Blair.
- A highly publicized experiment in collaborative hypertext writing.
Hypertext Nonfiction on the Web
- Trellix founder Dan Bricklin crafts a promising site to promote effective business communication on the Web.
- Critic Adrian Miles' fascinating one key dance sequence from a memorable and influential film. This analysis builds on topics explored in his earlier case study,Storyspace on the Big Screen.
- Shelley Jackson, author of Patchwork Girl, turns her hand to the Web with an exploration of her body.
- An important and ambitious hypertext on ancient Greek literature, art, and civilization.
- An extraordinarily ambitious and interesting approach to historical hypertext.
- A hypertextual letter-to-the-editor from Stuart Moultrop
- Perhaps the most influential web hypertext on on the subject of hypertext, a dedicated and serious effort to embrace the hypertext form in the service of scholarship.
- Writing Lives: Technology, Creativity, and Hypertext Fiction
- An extremely interesting and very hypertextual Masters' Thesis, by Michael Shumate.
- Matthew Kirschenbaum's doctoral dissertation (in progress) about electronic writing.
Tell Us About Other Hypertext Resources!
Send e-mail to info@eastgate.com
Hypertext courses
Hypertext calendar
Eastgate
...what's new
Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Hypertext Tools
Books
ORDER NOW
