
Authors and
Works
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Last updated 03/08/00
Mark Amerika
Important figure
in the "Avant-Pop" movement and author of two printed novels, The Kafka
Chronicles and Sexual Blood. Amerika is also the publisher of
the Alt-X Publishing Network.
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Grammatron
(Alt-X, 1997). A long, ambitious work of hypertext fiction that explores
elements of cyberculture. An opening linear section displays new portions
of text and graphics at timed intervals. This work has received a great
deal of media attention. |
Mary-Kim Arnold
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Lust
(Eastgate Systems, 1993). Hypertext short fiction with a strong flavor
of poetry to it. Written in Storyspace. (Windows and Mac) |
Christine Baczewska
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Vocabulary
(Turbulence). Audio poem in which the reader controls sung phrases
by moving the mouse over the phrases in a visual poem. The result is an
audio hypertext. Written in Shockwave. |
Bill
Bly
Author of hypertext
fiction and poetry, freelance writer, and musician. Teaches drama and hypertext
literature at New York University.
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We
Descend: Archives Pertaining to Egderus Scriptor, Volume One (Eastgate
Systems, 1997). An artifactual hypertext story of our far future, layering
diaries, letters, confessions, and fragments (with commentary and cross-references).
Written in Storyspace. (Windows and Mac). An
excerpt from the work is available in the Word Circuits Gallery. |
John
Cayley
Canadian poet
living in England, author of electronic poetry as well as a translator
of Classical Chinese verse. He runs Wellsweep Press, which publishes his
electronic poetry and translations from the Chinese.
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Indra's
Net.
A multivolume work of poetry that uses algorithms and randomization functions
to generate new texts from pre-existing ones. The approach is related to
those used by John Cage and Jackson Mac Low. The new text is different
every time it's read, and you see it being built on screen a little at
a time. HyperCard stacks for Mac. Some of this work can be downloaded from
Cayley's Web site. |
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Bird
Song Stream (Wellsweep Press). Cayley's translations and kinetic renderings
of five (primarily Classical) Chinese poems, which demonstrate his contention
that ancient Chinese verse forms have a strong nonlinear element to them.
HyperCard stack for Mac. |
Wes Chapman
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Turning
In (Eastgate Systems). Hypertext fiction. |
Hale
Chatfield
Author of multimedia
poetry that combines animation and audio. Head of Chatfield
Software, which markets his electronic poetry as well as software for
teaching poetry.
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9
Meditations. Electronic poem that supplements its text with graphics,
movement, and audio. Download 9
Meditations from Chatfield Software site (Windows, 666K). |
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Snake.
Electronic poem similar in approach to 9 Meditations. Windows. |
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Sonnet.
Included in the instructional program PoetryStar, this strict Petrarchan
sonnet has four alternative versions of each line. Every time the sonnet
is displayed, the program randomly chooses a version of each line. Download
PoetryStar from Chatfield Software site (DOS, 222K). |
Sean Cohen
Martha Conway
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8
Minutes (Enterzone,
1996). Hypertext short fiction. Each page is loaded automatically by client
pull (the whole thing lasting about 8 minutes). A link on each page lets
the reader follow an alternative version. |
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Girl
Birth Water Death (Enterzone, 1995). Hypertext short fiction. |
Douglas Cooper
Canadian novelist.
His first novel, Amnesia, was a best-seller in Canada.
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Delirium
(Time Warner's Pathfinder). Hypertext novel. |
Kathryn
Cramer
Author of hypertext
fiction and noted science fiction anthologist.
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In
Small & Large Pieces (Eastgate Systems, 1994). Darkly surreal hypertext
fiction. Written in Storyspace. (Windows and Mac) |
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Live
on Stage! Short hypertext fiction notable for its clear, easy-to-navigate
structure. Soon to be available on the Web. |
Jackie Craven
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In
the Changing Room (Word Circuits, 1998). Hypertext fiction in the
form of eight interwoven parables. |
Charles
Deemer
Playwright and
author of "hyperdramas" (plays in which audience members move around the
set observing simultaneously enacted scenes) and hypertext fiction.
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Chateau
de Mort. A hyperdrama that's available on disk as hypertext. It's a
murder mystery intended more as entertainment than serious literature,
but the techniques used are interesting. Download
Chateau
de Mort from the Dramatic Exchange Web site (DOS). |
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What
Do Men Want? A hypertext novel. |
Jane Yellowlees
Douglas
Hypertext fiction
writer and noted theorist and critic of hypertext literature.
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I
Have Said Nothing (Eastgate Systems, 1993). Hypertext short story.
(Windows and Mac) |
Edward
Falco
Author of hypertext
poetry and fiction, as well as several printed books of fiction. Editor
of The New River,
a Web magazine of hypertext literature.
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A
Dream with Demons (Eastgate Systems). Hypertext novel. |
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Sea
Island (Eastgate Systems, 1995). Ten hypertext poems. (Windows and
Mac) |
John
Fowler
Poet who has worked
with visual poetry in print for many years. Maintains the GRIST
On-Line Web site.
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Hiroshima,
Hiroshira, Hirosh'ma. A kinetic visual poem that uses graphics and
animation but doesn't allow any interaction. Freeware for Windows. |
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Guerilla
Poetry.
Visual hypertext poetry interspersed with quotations. |
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paulup.
Visual hypertext fiction in progress. |
Holly
Franking
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Negative
Space (Diskotech Software, 1990; reissued on CD-ROM 1995). A "Computer
Video Novel" that combines text, animation, and digital video. Originally
published on diskette with accompanying videotape. Reissued on CD-ROM with
digital video. |
Vera Frenkel
Artist and writer.
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The
Body Missing Project.
Hypermedia fiction set in a bar where artists gather to discuss Hitler's
plans to plunder the great art of Europe. Includes music. |
Richard Gess
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Mahasukha
Halo (Eastgate Systems). (Windows and Mac) |
William
Gibson
Fiction writer
know for his "cyberpunk" novels. Coiner of the term "cyberspace."
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Agrippa
(A Book of the Dead) (Kevin Begos Publishing, 1992; out of print).
A poem that scrolls its text down the screen and then erases itself from
disk so it can't be read more than once. ASCII
version of the text. |
Carolyn
Guyer
Author of hypertext
fiction and coordinator of HiPitched Voices, a collaborative hypertext
project for women, which is part of Brown University's Hypertext Hotel.
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Quibbling
(Eastgate Systems, 1992). Hypertext fiction. (Windows and Mac) An
excerpt of the work is available on the Web. |
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Izme
Pass, coauthored with Martha Petry (Writing on the Edge, 1991;
out of print). Hypertext fiction. An
excerpt of the work is available on the Web. |
David Herrstrom
Clark Humphrey
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The
Perfect Couple (Eastgate Systems). Hypertext fiction. |
Shelley Jackson
Author of printed
and hypertext fiction. Has also written and illustrated a children's book.
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My
Body (Alt-X, 1997). Hypertext fiction. |
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Patchwork
Girl (Eastgate Systems, 1995). Hypertext novel. (Windows and Mac) |
Michael
Joyce
Hypertext fiction
writer and author of a printed novel. One of the foremost theorists of
hypertext literature.
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Twelve
Blue (Eastgate Systems, 1997). Hypertext fiction for the Web. |
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Twilight:
a symphony (Eastgate Systems, 1996). Hypertext fiction on CD-ROM. (Mac;
Windows version forthcoming) |
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WOE
(Writing on the Edge, 1991; out of print). Hypertext fiction. Written
in Storyspace. (Mac) |
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afternoon,
a story (Eastgate Systems, 1990). Completed in 1987. One of the first
hypertext novels and by far the best known and most widely discussed. Written
in Storyspace. (Windows and Mac) |
Eduardo
Kac
Poet who has utilized
many visual elements in his work, including holography. Author of electronic
kinetic visual poems and hypertext poetry. The work below is downloadable
from Kac's Web site.
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Insect.Desperto.
Kinetic visual poem in English with audio track in Portuguese. HyperCard
stack. (Mac, 664K) |
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Storms.
Hypertext poem. (Mac, 65K) |
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Accident.
Animated poem. (Mac, 1.1MB) |
Robert
Kendall
Author of printed
poetry, kinetic visual poetry, and hypertext poetry. Director of Word Circuits.
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Dispossession
(Eastgate Web Workshop, 1999). Hypertext poem that uses dynamic techniques
to vary links and text within nodes on the fly. Written in HTML and JavaScript. |
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A
Life Set for Two (Eastgate Systems, 1996). Book-length hypertext poem
that uses kinetic text and visual elements. Dynamic techniques vary link
positions and text within nodes on the fly to emulate the processes of
thought and memory. Written in Visual BASIC for Windows. (Windows) |
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The
Clue: A MiniMystery (1991). Kinetic visual poem for DOS. Download
(DOS, 684K self-extracting archive file). |
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It
All Comes Down to _______ (1990). Kinetic visual poem for DOS. Download
(DOS, 216K self-extracting archive file). |
Judith
Kerman
Author of interactive
poetry and the creator of an interactive poetry authoring program.
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Mothering
(Eastgate Systems). A hypertext poem in 60 episodes, based on a previously
published printed work. (Windows and Mac) |
Deena
Larsen
Author of hypertext
poetry and fiction. Editor of William Dickey's complete hypertext poetry
(forthcoming from Eastgate Systems).
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Ferris
Wheels (Iowa Review Web, Feb. 1999). A 16-node hypertext fiction
and an animated poem. |
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Samplers
(Eastgate Systems). A collection of nine hypertext stories, including Century
Cross, which is also available as part of the Eastgate Quarterly.
Written in Storyspace. (Windows and Mac) |
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Marble
Springs (Eastgate Systems, 1994). Book-length hypertext poem about
the women of an imaginary 19th-Century town. It encourages readers to add
their own text to the work, and a new edition will include reader contributions
(see submission guidelines). Written
in HyperCard. (Mac) An
excerpt of the work is available on the Web, though it doesn't retain
the graphical elements of the complete on-disk version. |
Kathy Mac
Poet and fiction
writer with work in many printed magazines.
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Unnatural
Habitats (Eastgate Systems). Collection of loosely related hypertext
poems. Written in Storyspace. (Windows and Mac) |
Judy
Malloy
Artist and author
of interactive fiction. One of the very first pioneers of interactive fiction.
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Forward
Anywhere, coauthored with Cathy Marshall (Eastgate Systems, 1996).
Hypertext fiction. There's also an earlier Web
version of the work, which is implemented somewhat differently and
is less complete. |
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l0ve0ne
(Eastgate Web Workshop, 1994). Hypertext fiction. |
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My
Name is Scibe,
written collaboratively with Tom Igoe, Chris Abraham, Tim Collins, Anna
Couey, Valerie Gardiner, Joseph Wilson, and Doug Cohen (Arts Wire, 1994).
Hypertext fiction. |
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its
name was Penelope (Eastgate Systems, 1993). A narrative about an artist's
life. The sections appear in a random order that differs with each reading,
reflecting the randomizing nature of memory. |
Michael van
Mantgem
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Completing
the Circle (Eastgate Systems). |
Cathy
Marshall
Hypertext fiction
writer and noted hypertext researcher.
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Forward
Anywhere, coauthored with Judy Malloy (Eastgate Systems, 1996). Hypertext
fiction. There's also an earlier Web
version of the work, which is implemented somewhat differently and
is less complete. |
John
McDaid
Author of interactive
multimedia fiction.
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Uncle
Buddy's Phantom Funhouse (Eastgate Systems, 1992). A potpourri of writings,
computer programs, and audio recordings purportedly willed to the reader
by the deceased Buddy Newkirk. The author calls it an "artifactual novel."
Written in HyperCard. Includes audio tapes. (Mac) |
Tim
McLaughlin
Canadian author
of hypertext fiction.
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Notes
Toward Absolute Zero (Eastgate Systems). A "philatelic novella" in
hypertext, with text linked to images of postage stamps. Written in Storyspace.
(Windows and Mac) |
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25
Ways to Close a Photograph (NWHQ). A hypertext collection
of brief character sketches stylistically reminiscent of Calvino or Elias
Canetti. The author calls them "photographic writings" because each is
linked to a character in a group photograph. |
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Light
Assemblage (NWHQ). A hypermedia assemblage of text
and architectural images, created in collaboration with Thomas Bessai,
Maria Denegri, and Bruce Haden. |
Monica Moran
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Ambulance
(Eastgate Systems). Multimedia fiction. Written in HyperCard. (Mac) |
Stuart
Moulthrop
Author of hypertext
fiction and one of the foremost theorists of hypertext literature.
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The
Color of Television,
coauthored with Sean Cohen (Media Ecology, work in progress). Hypertext
fiction. |
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Hegirascope(work
in progress). Hypertext fiction with kinetic elements. |
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Victory
Garden (Eastgate Systems, 1991). Ambitious hypertext novel centered
around the Gulf War. Very good reading. Written in Storyspace. |
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Dreamtime
(Perforations, 1992). Hypertext fiction. Written for HyperCard. (Mac) Download
(800K). |
bp nichol
Canadian poet,
now deceased. Visual experimenter and member of the sound poetry group,
The Four Horsemen.
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First
Screening (Red Deer College Press, Alberta, Canada, 1993). A collection
of short, simple kinetic visual poems. Originally written for the Apple
II in BASIC in the mid 1980s, the work was converted to HyperCard format
by J.B. Hohm. These poems are among the earliest experiments in the electronic
genre. (Mac) |
Milorad
Pavic
Renowned Serbian
poet, fiction writer, and playwright, nominated for Nobel Prize. Author
of the famously hypertextual printed novel, Dictionary of the Khazars.
K.M. Payne
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A
Maze of Mirrors: An Adventure in Hypertext;
coauthored with George Simmers (Snakeskin Poetry Webzine, 1998).
A poem in rhymed iambic pentameter that is structured like a role-playing
game. The reader makes choices that guide the character through various
adventures in a labyrinth. |
Martha Petry
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Izme
Pass, coauthored with Carolyn Guyer (Writing on the Edge, 1991;
out of print). Hypertext fiction. An
excerpt of the work is available on the Web. |
Bobby Rabyd
Pseudonymous author
of hypertext fiction.
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Sunshine
'69 (SonicNet). Hypertext fiction. |
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LSD-51.
Hypertext that focuses on the early years of LSD. It combines fiction and
nonfiction and is updated annually. |
Jim
Rosenberg
Author of printed
and hypertext poetry.
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The
Barrier Frames (Eastgate Systems). Hypertext poetry. |
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Diffractions
Through (Eastgate Systems). Hypertext poetry. |
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Intergrams
(Eastgate Systems, 1994). Hypertext poetry. |
Geoff Ryman
Christy
Sheffield Sanford
Poet and fiction
writer widely published in print as well as on the Web. Most of her Web
work is highly visual, even when it doesn't incorporate true cybertext
elements.
George Simmers
Editor of Snakeskin
Poetry Webzine.
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A
Maze of Mirrors: An Adventure in Hypertext;
coauthored with K.M. Payne (Snakeskin Poetry Webzine, 1998). A poem
in rhymed iambic pentameter that is structured like a role-playing game.
The reader makes choices that guide the character through various adventures
in a labyrinth. |
Richard Smyth
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Genetis:
A Rhizography (Eastgate Systems, 1996). Hypertext fiction with multimedia.
(Windows and Mac) |
Sarah Smith
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King
of Space (Eastgate Systems). Hypertext science fiction. (Mac) |
Rob
Swigart
Author of hypertext
poetry and fiction, as well as many printed novels. In the mid 80s he wrote
Portal,
a cross between a sci-fi novel and a computer game (rereleased in 1995
for Windows 95 by Activision).
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Directions
(Eastgate Systems). Hypertext poetry with multimedia elements. |
Rod
Willmot
Canadian poet
and creator of the hypertext authoring system Orpheus.
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Everglade.
Book-length hypertext poem, one of the first works of hypertext literature.
Written in the C programming language. Shareware for DOS. (Rerelease forthcoming
from Eastgate) |
Komninos
Konstantinos Zervos
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