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1. Ontological Boundaries and Methodological Leaps: The Importance of Possible Worlds Theory for Hypertext Fiction (and Beyond)

   This essay sets out an ontologically centered approach to Storyspace hypertext fiction by applying Ryan’s (1991) model of Possible Worlds Theory to two canonical texts [...] Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl (1995) and Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden (1991). The analyses show how the Possible Worlds Theory method allows the study of hypertext fiction to move away from the chronological focus of traditional narrative theory to address the ontological mechanics of hypertext narratives. The chapter closes by suggesting ways in which Possible Worlds Theory might also be used as an analytical tool for other forms of digital literature.

   (Source: author's abstract.)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 08.04.2012 - 09:17

2. Hypertext in the Attic: The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Writing

   A discussion of a range of hypertext fictions asking whether hypertext still matters in literature.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 23.01.2013 - 22:31

3. Saying Something about "I Have Said Nothing"

   This essay offers an in-depth analysis of the themes that dominate the work, "I Have Said Nothing." It also provides reference materials, both creative and critical, instrumental for a better understanding of the work. 

   Mouannes Hojairi - 06.06.2018 - 18:47

4. Repetition in Mary-Kim Arnold's "Lust"

   This chapter analyzes the hypertext narrative poem "Lust" by Mary-Kim Arnold from the perspective of repetition, focusing on lexias, words, and sounds. It accompanies other information useful to scholars: a brief biography of the author, a recounting of how the poem came to be written, a list of critical references, and links to:

   • Live Stream Traversal on YouTube of "Lust" by Dene Grigar
   • Social media content generated during the Live Stream Traversal
   • Photos of the work's packaging
   • Scholarly Resources

   Najla Jarkas - 06.06.2018 - 19:56

5. Untangling the Threads of the Labyrinth in David Kolb's "Socrates in the Labyrinth"

   This essay explores David Kolb's "Socrates in the Labyrinth" from the perspective of its experimental approach to the philosophical writing. It also provides detailed information about the production of the work and accompanies the Live Stream Traversal of his work and other contents associated with it. 

   Dene Grigar - 09.06.2018 - 02:21

6. The Durability of Love: Background and History of Tim McLaughlin’s Notes Toward Absolute Zero

   Shipwrecks, train wrecks, and wrecked hearts permeate Tim McLaughlin’s Notes Toward Absolute Zero (NTAZ), a hypertext narrative produced with Storyspace in 1993 and published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in 1995 on 3.5-inch floppy disk and in 1996 on CD-ROM. As the title suggests, it is a story about cold so absolute that order and predictability are lost. As Rob Kendall points out in his study of the work, “Parsing the Cold: McLaughlin’s Notes Toward Absolute Zero,” the overarching theme of the narrative is the power of cold to both destroy and preserve. 

   Dene Grigar - 24.12.2019 - 23:16

7. Mark Bernstein's "Those Trojan Girls": Classical Storyspace Channels a Classic Story

   Bernstein's revisioning of Storyspace in its 3rd version functions as a bridge between the previous hypertexts that Eastgate Systems, Inc. published and experimental interactive works readers encounter today on storytelling platforms like Twine or as apps on their phones. The result is that Those Trojan Girls remains constant in his approach to publishing “serious hypertext” embraced in the 1990s while at the same time contemporizes its aesthetic and functionality for readers today.

   Dene Grigar - 30.08.2020 - 23:45

8. Twilight, A Symphony: The Great Lost Work of Michael Joyce

   Twilight, A Symphony remains one of the best novels in the career of Michael Joyce, a prolific author of electronic and print fiction. Unfortunately, the technological milieu of the work at the time of its publication in 1996 proved to be harsh, unfavourable, and ultimately (almost) deadly to the work. The global transition form Mac platform to Windows in the mid 1990s, the emergence of the Web as the platform for electronic literature publication, and the fading popularity of commercial, stand-alone authorial software such as Storyspace made Twilight, A Symphony stillborn on arrival. By the end of the decade only the specialised audience of critics and academics was able to read the work. Joyce himself call it his “great lost work.”

   Dene Grigar - 01.09.2021 - 18:07

9. Under the Parable. Hypertext and Trauma in Genetis: A Rhizography

   On the surface, Genetis: A Rhizography by Richard Smyth, a hypertext story published in The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (Fall 1996, Vol. 2, No. 4), could be labeled a typical work from the late period of Storyspace hypertext publishing. The growing popularity of the Web put the development of Storyspace in a position of catching up with multimedia capabilities of the Web. Thanks to this, apart from the allure of the visualised “hyperspace,” of multi-linear storytelling, and associative argumentation, Storyspace of 1996 offered authors a set of functionalities to include sounds, images and even videos in their hypertexts. Multimedia could be displayed and played back on the reader’s machine in a stand-alone mode: a much more reliable way than over the dial up, PPP connection protocols of the early Web.

   Dene Grigar - 08.09.2021 - 00:40

10. Storyspace Estranged: Kathy Mac’s Unnatural Habitats

    There is a third group of Storyspace hypertexts, and it includes works that aim to utilise poetic potential of both hypertext links and hypertext maps. Among these, Unnatural Habitats by Kathy Mac is the most representative, consistent, and beautiful example. Perhaps not surprisingly, because as a collection of interlinked poems, it represents hypertext poetry in most literal, not only metaphorical, manner. Advertised as “poetry of primitive submarines, crippled spaceships, and basement apartments,” the hypertext of this Canadian poet explores many different ways in which people make their own habitats unnatural, inhabitable, and hostile. 

    Dene Grigar - 08.09.2021 - 01:04