#Storyspace reader full#
This makes Moulthrop’s fiction highly relevant at any time and its full migration to the Web amounts to one of the most important e-literary events of the year 2022. Being inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ “Garden of Forking Paths” and its mind-bending theme of possible worlds in the context of the First World War, Victory Garden successfully managed to propel Borgesian motifs into contemporary context of modern wars and modern technologies. Add to this some blind alleys and “secret” spaces, and the result is an electronic labyrinth, a garden of forking paths not only in a postulated, metaphorical sense, but in a manner that is embodied into the mechanism of reading and experienced in interaction with the text. The dense network of interconnected text spaces (993 lexias and over 2800 links) delivered an abundance of divergent stories that run in parallel or, sometimes, in contradiction to each other.
Created in Storyspace and originally published in 1993 by Eastgate Systems, Stuart Moulthrop’s hypertext fiction achieved a status of a unique, literary evergreen 2 Traversal of Stuart Moulthrop’s “Victory Garden,” Part 1 (2020), “Rebooting Electronic Literature vol.2: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media, (eds) Dene Grigar, Nicholas Schiller at al), online, a wide ranging digital ouvre 3 Raine Koskimaa, Reading Victory Garden: Competing Interpretations and Loose Ends, in: Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 3: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media, (eds) Dene Grigar. , one of the latest web reconstructions of e-literary classics made by the Electronic Literature Lab, delivers a promise of yet another 20 years of exploration of this vast hypertext. Victory Garden 2022 1 Stuart Moulthrop, Victory Garden 2022, reconstruction made in Electronic Literature Lab by the team of: Stuart Moulthrop, Dene Grigar, Arlo Ptolemy, Andrew Thompson, Holly Slocum, Austin Gohl and available at.
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