Misadventure: Future Fiction and the New Networks.

From: Style | Date: June 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

I. Scary New Networks

On her way to the Pulitzer Prize for book reviewing, the New York Times

critic Michiko Kakutani took a memorable swipe at hypertext fiction, decreeing that the best things in this line amount to "Myst and Warcraft II as re-imagined by Robbe-Grillet" (40). Given the generally dismissive context of the article, her remark seems intended as a desultory putdown: hypertext fictions are not really literary but belong to a lower order, the computer games. Having jumped up from their cultural station, these things seem not even to deserve proper mention:

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