Strange Hypertexts community

The stange hypertexts community is a haven for people who are curious about strange hypertexts. Discussions can take many veins from the technological through to the academic. If you have some strange hypertexts you want to share with us then this is the place to do it. We also accept reviews hypertext and debate about the discipline or philosophy of hypertext literature.

Welcome to Strange Hypertexts

Welcome to the strange and exciting world of hypertext

Timeline

This work is based on video editing software. But instead of creating
sequences of video and sound, it creates sequences of still images and
associated texts. And just as in video editing software, where you can
add and insert video clips and then associate the clips with sound
along the sound track, in "Timeline", you can add and insert still

Shadows Never Sleep

This is a "zoom narrative" designed for the IPhone where turning pages
becomes zooming into surfaces and walking your fingers across the
multi-touch screen of the device. Here, the link is given to the
browser version.

Traumgedanken

The book “Traumgedanken” (“Thoughts on dreams”) contains a collection
of literary, philosophical, psychological and scientifical texts which
provide an insight into different dream theories. To ease the access
to the elusive topic, the book is designed as a model of a dream about
dreaming. Analogue to a dream, where pieces of reality are assembled

Card Shark and Thespis

A set of slides by Mark Bernstein featuring some animation that help
to explain his ideas about Card Shark and Thespis - hypertext systems
that he has implemented for creating hypertext narratives in novel
ways. The first of the 2 promotes sculptural hypertext, that is,
building a network of nodes by initially having a set of nodes all

Friends of Stange Hypertexts

If you enjoy strange hypertexts you should speak to our friends as well.

http://htlit.com/ - Reviews of hot new hyper-literature and news from the hyptext community frontline.

http://www.ifarchive.org/ - The interactive fiction archive. Interactive fictions with attitude.

http://www.eastgate.com/ - Boston based hyptext publisher who also make cool hypertext authoring software.