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1. The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction

   Publisher's blurb: Written in hypertext and read from a computer, hypertext novels exist as a collection of textual fragments, which must be pieced together by the reader.The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction offers a new critical theory tailored specifically for this burgeoning genre, providing a much needed body of criticism in a key area of new media fiction.

   Table of Contents: The Universe of Hypertext Fiction
   Hypertext Fiction and the Importance of Worlds
   Contradictions, World Views and the Nature of Truth in Michael Joyce's (1987) afternoon--a story
   Going, Going, Gone: the Slippery Worlds of Stuart Moulthrop's (1995) Victory Garden
   Is there a Mary/Shelley in this World? Parody and Counterparts in Shelley Jackson's (1997) Patchwork Girl
   The Colourful Worlds of Richard Holeton's (2001) Figurski at Findhorn on Acid
   Bibliography
   Index

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.02.2011 - 11:43

2. For Thee: A Response to Alice Bell

   In an essay that responds to Alice Bell's book The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Stuart Moulthrop uses the lessons of hypertext as both an analogy and an explanation for why hypertext and its criticism will stay in a "niche" - and why, despite Bell's concern, that's not such a bad thing. As the response of an author to his critic, addressed to "thee," "implicitly dragging her into the niche with me," this review also dramatizes the very productivity of such specialized, nodal encounters.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 03.02.2011 - 11:01