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hyperfiction
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hy·per·fic·tion  (hpr-fkshn)
n.
1. A work of fiction written and presented as an electronic hypertext document, especially one that allows variations in plot development.
2. The category of literature comprising such works.


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With these concepts in mind, he revisits Vannnevar Bush's and Ted Nelson's early models of the hypertext archive, Memex and Xanadu; conducts close readings of hypertext fictions by Shelley Jackson and Michael Joyce; and compares reading machines proposed by 16th century engineer Agostino Ramelli and 20th century architect Daniel Libeskind with the modern graphical user interface.
This data represents free and fee-based resources and includes resource types as varied as digital libraries, other virtual libraries and portals, e-journals, e-books, e-print archives, databases, hypertext fiction, maps, and more.
Aarseth's claim, though generalised, is only relevant for certain hypertexts, such as Michael Joyce's hypertext fiction, Afternoon, A Story (Eastgate Systems, Cambridge, MA, 1990, cited in Aarseth, 85).
 
 
 
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