Card Shark and Thespis: Exotic Tools for Hypertext Narrative

Card Shark and Thespis are two newly-implemented hypertext systems for creating hypertext narrative. Both systems depart dramatically from the tools currently popular for writing hypertext fiction, and these departures may help distinguish between the intrinsic nature of hypertext and the tendencies of particular software tools and formalisms. The implementation of these systems raises interesting questions about assumptions underlying recent discussion of immersive, interactive fictions, and suggests new opportunities for hypertext research.

Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
afternoon, a story	Michael Joyce	1990
Califia	M. D. Coverley	2000
Lust	Mary-Kim Arnold	1993
True North	Stephanie Strickland	1997

Critical writing referenced:

Title	Author	Year
A Pragmatics of Links	Susana Pajares Tosca	2000
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature	Espen Aarseth	1997
Hypertext and Creative Writing	Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce	1987
Patterns of Hypertext	Mark Bernstein	1998
Piecing Together and Tearing Apart: Finding the Story in afternoon	Jill Walker Rettberg	1999
The End of Books--Or Books Without End: Reading Interactive Narratives	J. Yellowlees Douglas	2003
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age	Sven Birkerts	2006

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen		2009

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Jill Walker Rettberg