Hyperizons:
Other Sources and Markets

• Web sites and bibliographies
• Markets
  • E-zines and Journals
  • Publishers
  • Online galleries, etc.
• Class projects
• Other Possibilities

CyberPort

Maintained by L.J. Winson, the CyberPort site is a growing resource for hypertext fiction. The most developed part of it at present is the list of "Reactive Interviews" Winson is conducting with various hyperfiction writers. Currently it appears to be the best source for interviews with other-than-Eastgate writers. CyberPort will also be the home of a collaborative hypertext (science, I think) fiction that is just underway; contact Winson about submissions. (5/1/96)

Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Select Bibliography

A staggering multidisciplinary list that includes many useful listings for literary criticism, as well as courses, and so on and so on. Compiled by Scott Stebelman, Librarian for English, Philosophy, and the Human Sciences Program at George Washington University. Unannotated, but a wonderful resource nevertheless ( 2/20/97: URL updated. Note: file size=158K).

hypertext and literary things

The homepage of Kia Mennie, founder of ht_lit, the hypertext and literary theory mailing list. An excellent all-around source for hypertext theory in general, Kia's page also contains some links to hypertext fiction.

Hypertext Fiction from hell

I'm not sure what's hellish about it (unless it's trying to write it well), but this short list is maintained by Gavin Inglis.

Postmodern Theory, Culture Studies and Hypertext

Highly recommended. Not just another list, but a value-added list. Maintained by Tom Goldpaugh at Marist College (New York), who has taken time to think about the links he's gathered and write something cogent about them. (7/8/95)

Web Hyperfiction Reading List.

Carolyn Guyer's annotated bibliography to her article "Written on the Web," about which see elsewhere in Hyperizons. Highly recommended--'nuff said. (10/6/95)

Markets

Various places to read and submit new work.

E-zines and Journals

Alt-X

Founded by writer Mark Amerika, Alt-X has begun publishing hypertext fiction in its Hyper-X section in recent months, as well as Amerika's work in progress, "Hypertextual Consciousness." Several individual works at this site are linked from their own citations in Hyperizons(10/12/96).

Coven Pride

"This here's a magazine" announces the title page, a growing collection of "the world's weird stories." Some stories appear to be linear, others hyperfictional. Submissions welcome. The primary instigator appears to be Robert Arellano, but that's just a guess. Also see its related predecessor, Notes of a Dirty Old Woman, which is definitely hypertextual, although I could not say what else it is other than rambling. (12/9/95)

Enterzone.

A quarterly that, among many other offerings, publishes some hyperfiction in each issue. A 1995 GNN Best of the Net nominee for literature. Recommended as a good place to look for original hypertext fiction; some stories in Enterzone are also cited individually in Hyperizons (e.g., see Martha Conway's "Girl Birth Water Death.") ( 2/10/97: URL updated)

The New River: a journal of hypertext literature and art. Ed. Edward Falco.

A new journal seeking submissions of hypertext poetry and fiction. Falco teaches creative writing, modern fiction and poetry at Virginia Tech and is also a hypertext poet (see the Eastgate Systems catalog). (2/10/97)

NWHQ .

"A beautifully designed litzine, very hyper in its overall arrangement, but I haven't yet found what I would call hyperfiction among its component pieces. The editor disagrees, and suggests in particular the work of Tim McLaughlin." (Prentiss's comments; I agree with Prentiss about the beauty of the design, with the editor about McLaughlin. --MS, 12/13/95).

Postmodern Culture.

A scholarly journal of very high quality. PMC has recently published its first piece of hypertext fiction, Matthew Miller's Trip ( 10/13/96).

Publishers

Camenalis Editore

An Italian hypertext publisher. Their Forum feature theoretical articles in English and Italian. The articles collected here thus far are English originals available elsewhere on the Web (with, it appears, faster connections. Has also issued one original hypertext story collection on disk, Loris Belpassi's Le Microcomiche. I'd be interested in receiving a review of this. (12/14/95)

Eastgate on the Web

The homepage of Eastgate Systems, pioneers in the field of hypertext fiction and developers of Storyspace, a hypertext writing software. Many fiction and nonfiction works available on disk, as well as some Web demos converted to HTML. So many of the most important hypertext writers are connected with Eastgate in one way or another that it's hard to find any independent commentary about it. A good recent essay is Thomas Swiss's "Music and Noise: Marketing Hypertexts," in the September 1996 Postmodern Culture. ( 10/7/96)

New York University Press Electronic Media

New York University Press has recently (May 1997) established a substantial annual prize--$1000--for hypertext fiction to complement its growing line of titles about electronic media.

Online Galleries and Workshops

They're not exactly magazines, not exactly publishers. They're spaces to read, submit, and show new work. I expect to be adding more of this in the near future (2/10/97)

The Blue Arm

According to its press release, "a web museum dedicated exclusively to 'digital art.'" Hypertext fiction is among the things for which The Blue Arm is looking. The deadline for being part of its inaugural launch was January 17, 1997, but John Latona confirms that the museum will remain open and review and request submissions regularly (2/10/97).

Hypertext Narrative Workshop: Derry / New York / Dublin: January - May 1997.

A trans-Atlantic workshop conducted in part by Michael Joyce (the New York component). Organized by Noah Pivnick and Rachel Buswell, who studied with Joyce at Vassar (2/10/97).

World 3

An ongoing collection of original works. I haven't discovered any fiction here yet, but this site is extremely interesting. Works by Joyce, Guyer, Bolter, et al. Curated by Nick Routledge. Unfortunately, it seems to have disappeared or moved, and I haven't been able to get e-mail through to Nick. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who knows of its or his whereabouts. ( 2/10/97)

Class projects

Duke University: "Democracy, Technology, and Authorship in America" (instructor: Catherine Taylor)

Spring 1995. No fiction here, but plenty of discussion of issues about hypertext fiction as well as many other topics. I discuss the genesis and development of this class in my article, "As We May Write: Electronic Literature Comes to Duke." For fiction research, see particularly the discussions of "proto-hypertext authors", Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, and hypertext and copyright. (rev. 6/19/95)

George Washington University: "Hyperfiction: Reading and Writing in Cyberspace" (instructors: Lynne Taetszch and Shelly Heller)

All fiction. Mainly individual stories set at various places around the Mall in Washington DC, but I noticed some of them link to each other. Overall, the project seems to be more an anthology than a collaboration. Contains a nifty image map of the Mall. Some navigational problems exist due to most of the individual nodes not being back-linked to either the class's main page or individual stories' main pages. (5/8/95).

Hamline University: "Legends of the Holy Grail: Arthurian Legends." (instructor: Richard Smyth)

ENG 353 (Spring 1995). A set of interlocking projects for one of several classes taught by Smyth at Hamline University. (11/26/95)

MIT: "Non-Linear and Interactive Narrative: Theory and Practice." (instructor: Janet H. Murray, Ph.D.)

A course taught every spring at MIT. Student Web Narratives 1996 (about a dozen or so pieces) are available. Dr. Murray's forthcoming book, Hamlet on the Holodeck: Toward an Aesthetics of Cyberspace, is scheduled for Spring, 1997 (10/5/96).

Pennsylvania, University of: "From Epic to Hypertext," (instructor: Jack Lynch)

A few annotated texts prepared for Jack Lynch's English 9 class in Spring, 1995. The Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" appears to be the most complete. (Jack Lynch also maintains a number of excellent bibliographies of online literature and humanities sites. See his homepage). (6/17/95)

Texas, University of: American Literature Survey Site (instructor: Daniel Anderson)

A quite impressive site under development by Daniel Anderson's American literature class. Of particular interest for hypertext research are the interactive versions of "Bartleby the Scrivener" and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." (5/14/95)

Virginia Tech University: "HyperLiterature/HyperTheory."

Designed by a graduate-level English course at Virginia Tech, this site has a good bibliography of online and print sources about hypertext theory. (1/7/96)

Other Possibilities

I have not yet found any hypertext fiction and/or criticism at the sites listed here, but they appear to be good potential sources. Let me know if you find anything pertinent in their archives and/or new updates. (12/13/95)

CMU English Server

A lot of links to HTMLized fiction here, though most of it is not hypertext: usually just linked tables of content, etc. Also, the following journals, all of interest:

Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life

A forum for work in cultural and critical theory discussing American leftist and progressive politics. (12/15/95)

CTHEORY

"An international, electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture." (12/15/95)

Cultronix

An interactive cultural studies journal. (12/15/95)

Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities.

Maintained by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. An idea whose time has come, thanks to Matt. I don't think there's anything there yet directly about hypertext fiction except my own thesis, but this is obviously a place to revisit from time to time (12/1/96)

Intelligent Agent: Newsletter on the Use of Interactive Media and Technology in Arts and Education. Editor in Chief: Christiane Paul.

The subtitle pretty well describes what this is. It doesn't publish fiction, but it is an excellent place to explore for capsule reviews of new hypermedia works. The Web site's contents are excerpted from each month's print issue, and both the print and online versions are very well-produced. Paul is a literary theorist who has published with Eastgate among other places.

The Interactive Science Fiction Project

Still looks pretty linear to me, but maybe it hasn't had time to get hyper yet. (That's Prentiss's comment, but ditto for me. --MS 12/13/95).

The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

(12/13/95)

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