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1. Patchwork Girl

   Alternative Title: Patchwork girl, or, A modern monster by Mary/Shelley, & herself: a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story & broken accents

   Publisher's blurb:

   What if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were true?

   What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster -- not the fictional Dr. Frankenstein?

   And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America?

   This is their story.

   (Source: Eastgate website)

   A retelling of the Frankenstein story where a female monster is completed by Mary Shelley herself.

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   Electronic Literature Directory entry:

   Alternative Title: Patchwork girl, or, A modern monster by Mary/Shelley, & herself: a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story & broken accents

   Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl was created in Storyspace, is distributed by Eastgate Systems, Inc., and ranks among the most widely read, discussed, and taught works of early hyperfiction.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 12:59

2. Hegirascope

   Early web hypertext that combines links with text that automatically refreshes, sometimes faster than the reader can follow it.

   Note: The New River published Hegirascope Version 2 in October 1997.

   Author's description, from The New River:

   WHAT IF THE WORD STILL WON'T BE STILL?

   This is an extensive revision of a Web fiction originally released in 1995. The current text consists of about 175 pages traversed by more than 700 links. Most of these pages carry instructions that cause the browser to refresh the active window with a new page after 30 seconds. You can circumvent this by following a hypertext link, though in most cases this will just start a new half-minute timer on a fresh page.

   The best way to encounter this work is simply to dive in, though some may prefer a more stable reference point. For these readers, there is an index to particularly interesting places in the text. You may want to go to that page and bookmark it.

   The original "Hegirascope" was designed for Netscape Navigator 1.1 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0. This version adds no new technical features and requires no plug-ins, Java, or JavaScript.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.02.2011 - 15:22