Stuart Moulthrop
an annotated bibliography

• General information
• Hypertext fiction
  • The Color of Television
  • Dreamtime
  • "Hegirascope"
  • Victory Garden
• Criticism and other non-fiction

General information

Fiction writer, critic, professor at the Institute for Language, Technology, and Communications Design at the University of Baltimore.

A brief biography is available at Eastgate's site.

Stuart Moulthrop's home page is available. This includes a more complete list of his publications and activities.

Hypertext Fiction

The Color of Television, 1996-. With Sean Cohen.

Dreamtime, c1992.

HyperCard 2.x file downloadable from Moulthrop's site. (1/5/97)

Hegirascope," (at least 180+ spaces and 500+ links; in progress,c1995-)

"What if the word will not be still?" Moulthrop asks, and his entertaining experiment with the "client pull" part of Netscape's dynamic documents is off and running. The timed links put me a little on edge as I read--a sensation fittingly in sync with the text. It has its shortcomings, mainly in the self-aware tone that writers apparently keep thinking is new and frightening (does no one read Tristram Shandy any more?). It frets over reviews, horny readers who quickly move on to the Penthouse site, readers who might find this all too wild--enough already. Despite this, Moulthrop's sarcasm is refreshing and sometimes funny, and his use of dynamic documents, backgrounds and tables is clever and varied. A Web milestone--any writer contemplating serious work in HTML should examine "Hegirascope" closely. Netscape 1.1 or higher is required. For another example of a fiction using dynamic documents, see my recent story, "Holier Than Thou." ( 5/31/96)

Victory Garden (105 spaces, approximately 500 links; c1995).

World Wide Web sampler version at Eastgate's Web site, converted from Storyspace. This link also points to Eastgate's ordering information for the full version (993 spaces, 2804 links; c1991) in Storyspace.

CRITICISM & REVIEWS

Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (Faber and Faber, 1994) Excerpts available, including the chapter in question.

This is not a critique, but Victory Garden is briefly discussed in Chapter 11, "Hypertext: Of Mouse and Man." Birkerts begins by describing his reading experience of Victory Garden, but soon wanders into trying to rebut Robert Coover's "terrifyingly" entitled article "The End of Books" and splashes into the you-can't-read-it-in-a-bathtub school of hypertext criticism. Conclusion: you can't get a horseless carriage to eat hay (well, not really--but it's the only place the "bathtub" argument can go). Amusing, though certainly uncontaminated by serious commentary on Victory Garden. (7/8/95)

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