afternoon, a story
by Michael Joyce

A classic of electronic fiction, afternoon is the 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. afternoon is a rich and lyrical exploration of the tangled strands of knowing and memory, the interconnections that bind and unravel the intersecting lives of its postmodern characters.

Twilight, A Symphony
by Michael Joyce

Somewhere a dim memory of melony peach light over small hills of an opposite shore coloring the cobalt river of twilight. . . .

This is how it will be to die.
The long-awaited new hypertext from renowned hypertext writer
Michael Joyce. Unflinching but deeply compassionate, Twilight is a complex meditation on loss and desire and one man's struggle to hold life together while everything close to him falls apart.

Forward Anywhere
by Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall

In 1993, Xerox PARC began a new program to bring scientists and artists together. Out of the inauspicious meeting of Cathy Marshall and writer and artist Judy Malloy, grew an exchange of e-mail, of ideas and stories, and a collaborative work of power and daring. Forward, Anywhere explores the stories and day-to-day realities that reach across two lives, and how those pasts make the narrators who they are.

Marble Springs
by Deena Larsen

Marble Springs, a complex and lyrical new work in the tradition of Spoon River Anthology and Winesburg, Ohio, explores the lives of the women who built the American West. Marble Springs invites the reader to explore a collection of poems discovered in the ruins of a church in an abandoned ghost town. The poems, like the lives of so many 19th century women, are anonymous, enticing the reader to discover the identity of the author hidden between the
lines.

In Marble Springs, we discover the webs of relationships that bound these women -- proud Bostonians and proud Utes, refugees from Ireland and China
and from American slavery -- and led them to love and hate their sisters and to build a thriving town on a mountain of false promise.

Deena Larsen also turns the tables on the traditions of the western. Rather than offering brief glimpses of women behind the scenes, here the lives of women are spread before the reader while men are seen only at the margins -- including the literal margins where the reader is invited to write. The changes wrought by the reader's participation expand this tale of the Wild West into an ever-evolving myth; Marble Springs becomes every family's story.

Marble Springs is exhaustively researched. Its hypertextual notes and extensive bibliographies lead the reader to explore topics from frontier religion and law to quilting and cooking.

Cyborg: Engineering The Body Electric
by Diane Greco

Part human and part machine, the cyborg is a familiar figure in cyberpunk science fiction. But this figure looms ever larger -- as metaphor and as reality -- in all our lives. Diane Greco explores the significance of the cyborg in 20th
century writing, from Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson to Haraway and Derrida. The cyborg is more than just an interesting fiction; Cyborg: Engineering The Body Electric explores cyborg's impact on political action and personal identity. "If cyborgs know about anything, they know about parts. Spare parts, parts and wholes, prostheses, replacements, enhancements. How do you make sense of all these pieces? After the disaster, when things fall apart, cyborgs know how to stitch themselves back together."

Intergrams
by Jim Rosenberg

Complex experimental poetry. Every move of the mouse discloses new phrases
and new combinations. Rosenberg has created a visual syntax that makes
explicit the complex connections between segments of the large hyper-poems;
segments expand on the screen to disclose their nested inner structures.

The Barrier Frames; Diffractions Through
by Jim Rosenberg

Interactive poems that invite the reader to explore the aural and visual
possibilities of densely packed "word clusters"--groups of words overlaid in the same physical and syntactic space. Readers use the mouse to peel away layers of text, rendering it legible.

Rosenberg uses electronic writing technology to experiment with linguistic
simultaneity and implicit association. His evocative word clusters challenge and extend poetic and hypertextual conventions.