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  1. The Ed Report

    The Ed Report is a hypertextual US government document, describing the covert military exploits of a technical writer named Ed. (The coincidentally-named Ed Commission produced this once top-secret report.) Epic hero Ed leaves off his ordinary life - in which he writes software documentation, takes care of his autistic younger brother, and pursues early Near Eastern scholarship - as he is pressed into service as an Akkadian code-talker during an undercover operation in Colombia.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 12:34

  2. Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis

    Flickering Connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl: The Importance of Media-Specific Analysis

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:44

  3. Stitch Bitch: the Patchwork Girl

    It has come to my attention that a young woman claiming to be the author of my being has been making appearances under the name of Shelley Jackson. It seems you have even invited her to speak tonight, under the misapprehension that she exists, that she is something besides a parasite, a sort of engorged and loathsome tick hanging off my side. May I say that I find this an extraordinary impertinence, and that if she would like to come forward, we shall soon see who is the author of whom.

    Well? Well?

    Very well.

    I expect there are some of you who still think I am Shelley Jackson, author of a hypertext about an imaginary monster, the patchwork girl Mary Shelley made after her first-born ran amok. No, I am the monster herself, and it is Shelley Jackson who is imaginary, or so it would appear, since she always vanishes when I turn up. You can call me Shelley Shelley if you like, daughter of Mary Shelley, author of the following, entitled: Stitch Bitch: or, Shelley Jackson, that imposter, I'm going to get her.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:58

  4. False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters

    A meditation on parasites and montrosity in American novels and hypertext fictions.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.03.2011 - 15:57

  5. Speak, "Memory": Simulation and Satire in Reagan Library

    Speak, "Memory": Simulation and Satire in Reagan Library

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.03.2011 - 13:43

  6. Reagan Library

    Reagan Library is an odd mixture of stories and images, voices and places, crimes and punishments, connections and disruptions, signals on, noises off, failures of memory, and acts of reconstruction. It goes into some places not customary for "writing." I think of it as a space probe. I have no idea what you'll think.

    (Source: Author's description from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1)

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     The piece seems to become more and more confusing as the writing continues. Demonstrates certain aspects of the writings becoming more incoherent, showing older graphic pictures of areas that seem lost, and bizarre, regarding the context of Reagan Library. The texts describe certain scenarios as well such as the Doctor asking what appears to be a patient to perform tasks involving one of the graphics, the piece goes on from the doctor's narration of the person's ability to perform the given tasks involving the image.

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    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.03.2011 - 13:49

  7. Reach, a Fiction

    Reach, a Fiction

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.03.2011 - 10:46

  8. On the Birthday of a Stranger

    On the Birthday of a Stranger

    Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 23:22

  9. We Descend : Archives Pertaining to Edgerus Scriptor, Volume One

    A story of our far future, unearthed by a Scholar to whom it is the distant past. But for that far-off scholar, as for every reader, the paths followed and the connections forged among the diaries, letters, confessions, and artifacts lead only to further questions. Some documents speak to us of Egderus, a young boy at the isolated Mountain House. What -- or who -- lives in the rocky hills around him? What secrets bind his superiors in fear and silence? What is it that creeps out, undetected, to drive a man mad, or to tear him limb from limb? Why must Egderus later leave the Mountain House as amanuensis to the Good Doctor, interrogator and torturer? What intrigue surrounds one prisoner, the Historian, that makes the Good Doctor so relentless in his attack? Why, ultimately, is this Historian the one victim that Egderus attempts to rescue? Years later, as an old man at the Mountain House, Egderus uncovers only more mysteries. What did the Historian learn that drove him to his death? Does something live, still, in the rocks around him? And how shall Egderus pursue this disturbing legacy that could shake the foundations of his darkening world?

    Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 23:43

  10. "Uncle Roger", an Online Narrabase

    Uncle Roger is a "narrabase" or narrative database. It was first told as an online serial on Art Com Electronic Network (ACEN) and then was published as an interactive online database on ACEN. It is also available as computer software for both Apple II and IBM-compatible computers. The narrabase form uses a computer database to build up levels of meaning. The artist explains how this form evolved from her visual books and her information databases. She discusses the story and structure of Uncle Roger and describes how the story was told and published in an online community. In the conclusion she discusses the future of computer literature.

    (Source: author's abstract for paper)

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 04.04.2011 - 20:49

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