A classic of electronic fiction, afternoon is the richly imagined story of Peter, a technical writer who (in one reading) begins his afternoon with a terrible suspicion that the wrecked car he saw hours earlier might have belonged to his former wife. System Requirements: This title runs on Macintosh Mac OS X 10.3-10.6 (Panther through Snow Leopard) and on 32-bit Windows XP through Windows 7. It is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 - 10.9 (Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks) and 64-bit Windows 7 and 8.

Afternoon: A Story

Michael Joyce

Computers & Technology

Eastgate Systems, Inc.

The Gulf War and its media frenzy serve as the backdrop for this sprawling tale of campus politics, seduction, war, and dissent. 
In the winter of 1991, Emily Runbird is compelled to leave graduate school for a position as a postal clerk in the Gulf War. She also leaves her lover, another graduate student named Victor Gardner, who has more than his share of trouble on the home front after Jude Bush, an undergraduate with a curious past, embarks on a mad campaign to seduce him. Meanwhile, Emily has made it clear that her true love is Victor's middle-aged and possibly deranged thesis advisor, Boris Urquhart. 
Robert Coover called this hypertext "indispensable... No one has taken on the hard questions about hypertext and fiction or played so intrasigently with the myriad possibilities and obstacles of this new art form as Stuart Moulthrop, its leading practitioner and theorist. The publication of his first full-length narrative work, Victory Garden, marks a new stage in hyperfiction's development." 
The Victory Garden CD-ROM works with Windows/PC and Macintosh computers.

Victory Garden

Literature & Fiction

Moulthrop, Stuart

Contemporary

CD for Macintosh and Windows. The acclaimed hypertext re-working of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, now in its 6th printing!

Patchwork Girl

Jackson, Shelley

Tinderbox is a tool for notes, a personal content management assistant. The Tinderbox Way takes a close look at Tinderbox and its underlying ideas, exploring not just the program's mechanics but also its design and its spirit. From the elements of writing more effective notes to the frontiers of information farming, from the classroom and conference hall to the research laboratory, The Tinderbox Way explores a new approach to working with and representing interlinked ideas.

The Tinderbox Way

Biographies & Memoirs

Mark Bernstein

Leaders & Notable People

The future of serious writing will lie on the screen. We will read, for reading is indispensable, but we will be less closely tied to the book, to paper and ink. The chief innovation of electronic writing is the link the connection between pages that makes the Web possible and that has already transformed the way we read. For twenty years, fine writers have worked to explore the possibilities of the link, to come to grips with the most important new punctuation since the comma. Many of our finest critics have studied hypertext, especially such classics as Michael Joyce s afternoon and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl.  In Reading Hypertext, Mark Bernstein and Diane Greco have selected the best and most important studies of hypertext reading and criticism, drawn from disciplines ranging from philosophy and classical philology to film theory and technocriticism. These indispensable studies reveal how much we now understand about the reading hypertext, and point the way for important new work.  Table Of Contents  1. Into The Weeds Mark Bernstein  2. Why Are We Still Talking Like This? Diane Greco  3. La Maison Hypertext Charles A. Perfetti  4. Piecing Together And Tearing Apart: Finding The Story In Afternoon Jill Walker  5. A Cognitive Model N. J. Lowe  6. How Do I Stop This Thing? Closure And Indeterminacy In Interactive Narrative J. Yellowlees Douglas  7. Reconfiguring Writing George P. Landow  8. The Lyrical Quality Of Links Susana Pajares Tosca  9. A Pragmatics Of Links Susana Pajares Tosca  10. Stitching Together Narrative, Sexuality, Self: Shelley Jackson s Patchwork Girl George P. Landow  11. These Waves Of Bugs Anja Rau  12. Cinematic Paradigms For Hypertext Adrian Miles  13. Nonce Upon Some Times: Rereading Hypertext Fiction Michael Joyce  14. Returning In Twilight: Joyce s Twilight, A Symphony Dave Ciccoricco  15. Hypertext Structure Under Pressure David Kolb  16. Reading Spatial Hypertext Catherine C. Marshall  17. Hypertext Teaching Adrian Miles  18. Hypertext With Consequences: Recovering A Politics Of Hypertext Diane Greco  19. What The Geeks Know: Hypertext And The Problem Of Literacy Stuart Moulthrop

Reading Hypertext

Diane Greco