The parallels (and oppositions) between hypertext and AI are brought out in section five.

Eastgate Systems alumns Diane Greco and Mark Bernstein explain two "exotic tools for hypertext narrative."

Techno-poet Stephanie Strickland surveys the digital artistic practices of her peers and presents a "paradigm for interaction."

Choosing between James Joyce and Stephen King means choosing between engagement and immersion. Or does it?

Who says hypertext readers have more brains than gamers? Not Henry Jenkins.

J. Yellowlees Douglas and Andrew Hargadon on the affective side of hypertexts via "schemas, scripts, and the fifth business."

From the Oracle of Delphi to the Wizard of Oz, it is clear that "if we attack we will destroy a great empire." The only question that remains, is which one?

R.M. Berry on the recuperation of politicized language, in (and through) the fiction of Marianne Hauser and Lidia Yuknavitch.

Author Lucy Corin opposes the emotionalism of genre fiction to the deeply emotional formalism in the fiction of Harold Jaffe, Patricia Eakins, and Janet Kauffman.

Lisette Gonzales reviews a book of essays by Matthew Fuller that examines the way we are programmed by software.