Narrative literature consisting of sections of text connected by links; usually digital. A genre of electronic literature.
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Electronic literature, Interactive fiction, Digital poetry, Generative literature, Cell phone novels, Instapoetry, Cybertext, Creepypasta, Fan fiction, Blog fiction
Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links that provide a new context for non-linearity in literature and reader interaction. The reader typically chooses links to move from one node of text to the next, and in this fashion arranges a story from a deeper pool of potential stories. Its spirit can also be seen in interactive fiction.
The term can also be used to describe traditionally-published books in which a nonlinear narrative and interactive narrative is achieved through internal references. James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), Enrique Jardiel Poncela's La Tournée de Dios (1932), Jorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths (1941), Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire (1962), Julio Cortázar's Rayuela (1963; translated as Hopscotch), and Italo Calvino's The Castle of Crossed Destinies (1973) are early examples predating the word "hypertext", while a common pop-culture example is the Choose Your Own Adventure series in young adult fiction and other similar gamebooks, or Jason Shiga's Meanwhile, a graphic novel that allows readers to choose from a total of 3,856 possible linear narratives.[1]
In 1969, IBM and Ted Nelson from Brown University gained permission from Nabokov's publisher to use Pale Fire as a demonstration of an early hypertext system and, in general, hypertext's potential. The unconventional form of the demonstration was dismissed in favour of a more technically oriented variant.[2]
^Liu, Jonathan H. "Take Your Pick With Meanwhile by Jason Shiga". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 2023-10-30. Retrieved 2024-01-03.
^Rowberry, Simon (2011-06-06). "Vladimir Nabokov's pale fire". Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia(PDF). New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 319–324. doi:10.1145/1995966.1996008. ISBN 9781450302562. S2CID 11631986. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-08-20. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
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