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A free references database of more than 700 references on hypertext and related fields is available for for use with EndNote Plus from Niles and Associates.

The references contained here were compiled ad hoc by volunteers in the course of their research. Coverage is neither uniform nor complete. Some errors and many omissions remain.

Last updated January 21, 1998. Please send corrections and additions to bernstein@eastgate.com.

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What follows is a brief and idiosyncratic bibliography of hypertext, with an emphasis on Storyspace and the systems that have influenced it over the years. Additions and corrections are welcome!

A fine bibliography, with an emphasis on literary hypertext, was written by Terence Harpold in 1991. (For the paper version, see below; for the on-line version, click here.)

Aarseth, Espen.
"Nonlinearity and Literary Theory," in G. P. Landow, ed., Hypertext and Literary Theory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1993.

Aarseth, Espen.
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997

Bernstein, Mark.
"The Bookmark and the Compass: Orientation Tools for Hypertext Users." SIGOIS Bulletin 9 (1988) pp. 34-45.

Bernstein, Mark.
"An apprentice that discovers hypertext links," in A. Rizk et. al., eds., Hypertexts: Concepts, systems and applications, pp. 212-223. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Bernstein, Mark.
"Deeply Intertwingled Hypertext." Technical Communication (1991) pp. 41-47.

Bernstein, Mark.
"The Navigation Problem Reconsidered," in E. Berk and J. Devlin, eds., Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Bernstein, Mark.
"Storyspace and the process of writing," in E. Berk and J. Devlin, eds., Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Bernstein, Mark.
"Enactment in Information Farming," Hypertext '93 Proceedings. Seattle: Association for Computing Machinery, 1993.

Bernstein, Mark.
"On Writing Hypertext: Tools for Information Farming," Proc. Association for Computing in the Humanities, 1994.

Bernstein, Mark, J. David Bolter, Michael Joyce, and Elli Mylonas.
"Architectures for Volatile Hypertexts," Hypertext '91 Proceedings. San Antonio: Association for Computing Machinery, 1991.

Bernstein, Mark, Michael Joyce, and David Levine.
"Contours of Constructive Hypertexts," Proc. 1992 European Conference on Hypertext. Milano: Association for Computing Machinery, 1992.

Bolter, Jay David, and Michael Joyce.
"Hypertext and Creative Writing," Hypertext '87 Proceedings, pp. 41-50. Chapel Hill: Association for Computing Machinery, 1987.

Bolter, Jay David.
"Topographic Writing: Hypertext and the electronic writing space," in G. P. Landow and P. Delany, eds., Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

Bolter, Jay David.
Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, 1991.

Bukatman, Scott.
"Hypertextuality." Artforum (January, 1994).

Conklin, Jeff.
"Hypertext: an introduction and survey," IEEE Computer, vol. 20 no. 9 (1987), 17-41.

Coover, Robert.
"The End of Books." New York Times Book Review (June 21, 1992), p.1.

Coover, Robert.
"Hyperfiction: Novels for Computer." New York Times Book Review (August 29, 1993), p.1.

Crane, Jennie C., et al.
"Storyspace: Hypertext Writing Environment." Computers In The Humanities 27 (1993), pp. 137-141.

December, J. and N. Randall.
The World Wide Web unleashed. New York: SAMS Publishing, 1994.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
"Wandering through the Labyrinth: Encountering Interactive Fiction." Computers and Composition 6(3) (1989), 93-105.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
"afternoon, a story (review)" MacUser UK 6(25) (1990), 31.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees, and Gordon Howell.
"The Evolution of Interactive Fiction." Computer Assisted Language Learning: An International Journal 2 (1990), pp. 93-111.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
"Reading in Hypertext", Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on Computers and the Writing Process, Brighton, University of Sussex (1991) 49-60

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
"Understanding the Act of Reading: the WOE Beginner's Guide to Dissection." Writing On The Edge 2 (2) (1991), pp. 112-125.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
"What Hypertexts Do That Print Narratives Cannot." The Reader (Autumn, 1992), 1-23.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
"Social Impacts of Computing: The Framing of Hypetext." Social Science Computer Review 11(4) (1993) 417-429.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
"Where the Senses Become a Stage and Reading Is Direction: Performing the Texts of Virtual Reality and Interactive Fiction." The Drama Review (Spring, 1993).

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
"Dipping into Possible, Plausible Worlds: the Experience of Interactivity from Virtual Reality to Interactive Fiction." The Drama Review 37(4) (1993) 18-37.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
"The Book is Dead! Long Live the Book!" Southern Review (Australia) 24(4), (1994), 113-119.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
"Sorry, We Ran Out of Space, So It's Just a Guy Thing: Virtual Intimacy and the Male Gaze Cubed." Leonardo 29(3) (1996) 205-215.

Douglas, J. Yellowlees.
The End of Books? Or Books Without End? Reading Hypertext Narratives. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.

Edwards, Gavin.
"Uncle John's Text: Talking With A Hypertext Novelist." The Village Voice 39 (5) (February 1, 1994), p. 46.

Egan, Dennis, Michael Lesk, Daniel Ketchum, Carol Lochbaum, Joel Remde, Michael Littman, and Thomas Landauer.
"Hypertext for the Electronic Library? CORE Sample Results," in P.D. Stotts and R.K. Furuta, Eds., Hypertext '91 Proceedings. San Antonio: Association for Computing Machinery, 1991.

Engelbart, Douglas.
"Knowledge-Domain Interoperability and an Open Hyperdocument System," in E. Berk and J. Devlin, Eds. The Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Grant, Richard.
"Beyond Books: Never the Same Text Twice." Washington Post Book World (July 11, 1993), pp. 8-9.

Guyer, Caroline, and Martha Petry.
"Notes for Izme Pass Expose." Writing On The Edge 2 (2) (1991).

Halasz, F. G.
"Reflections on NoteCards: seven issues for the next generation of hypermedia systems," Communications of the ACM, vol. 31 no. 7 (1988), 836-852.

Harpold, Terence.
"Hypertext and hypermedia: a selected bibliography," in E. Berk and J. Devlin, eds., Hypertext/hypermedia handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Harpold, Terence.
"The Contingencies of the Hypertext Link." Writing on the Edge 2(1991): 126-39.

Horn, Robert.
Mapping Hypertext. Lexington Institute Press, 1989.

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan.
"Structure and Text: Writing Space and Storyspace." Computers and Composition 9 (2) (1992), pp. 95-129.

Joyce, Michael.
"Siren Shapes: Exploratory and Constructive Hypertext." Academic Computing (November, 1988), pp. 11ff.

Joyce, Michael.
"Storyspace as a Hypertext System for Writers and Readers of Varying Ability," Hypertext '91 Proceedings, pp. 281-388. Pittsburgh: Association for Computing Machinery, 1991.

Joyce, Michael.
"Selfish Interaction: subversive texts and the multiple novel," in Emily Berk and Joseph Devlin, eds., The Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Joyce, Michael.
"Notes Toward an Unwritten Nonlinear Electronic Text, 'The Ends of Print Culture.' " Postmodern Culture 2:1 (Electronic Journal), 1992.

Joyce, Michael.
"New Teaching: Toward a pedagogy for a new cosmology." Computers and Composition 9:3 (1992).

Joyce, Michael. "A feel for prose: Interstitial links and the contours of hypertext."
Writing On The Edge 4 (1) (1992).

Joyce, Michael.
Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics. University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Kaplan, Nancy.
"Reading and Writing the Word: Ideology, Technology, and the Future of Writing Instruction," in Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, eds., Evolving Perspectives on Computers and Composition Studies: Questions for the 1990's. Houghton, MI: Computers and Composition Press, 1991.

Kaplan, Nancy and Stuart Moulthrop.
"Seeing Through the Interface: Computers and the Future of Composition," in G. Landow and P. Delany, eds., The Electronic Word. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.

Kaplan, Nancy and Stuart Moulthrop.
"Where No Mind Has Gone Before: Ontological Design for Virtual Spaces." Proc. European Hypertext Conference. Edinburgh: Association for Computing Machinery, 1994.

Kaplan, Nancy and Stuart Moulthrop.
"They Became What They Beheld: The Futility of Resistance in the Space of Electronic Writing." in S. Hilligoss and C. Selfe, eds., Literacy and Computers. New York: Modern Language Association, 1994.

Landow, George P.
"Relationally Encoded Links and the Rhetoric of Hypertext," Hypertext '87 Proceedings, pp. 331-344. Baltimore: Association for Computing Machinery, 1987.

Landow, George P.
"Popular Fallacies about Hypertext," in David J. Jonassen and Heinz Mandl, eds., Designing Hypertext/Hypermedia for Learning. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1990.

Landow, George P.
"The Rhetoric of Hypermedia: Some Rules for Authors," in G. P. Landow and P. Delany, eds., Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

Landow, George P. , ed.
Hyper/Text/Theory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1994.

Landow, George P.
Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1992.

Landow, George P.
Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology.2nd edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997.

Lanestedt, Jon.
"Storyspace: Presentasjon av et hypertekstverkt|y for Macintosh." OLUFF: Tidsskrift for interaktive multimedia no. 1, volume 5 (1992).

Malcolm, Kathryn, Steven Poltrock, and Douglas Schuler.
"Industrial-Strength Hypermedia: Requirements for a Large Engineering Enterprise," in P.D. Stotts and R.K. Furuta, eds., Hypertext '91 Proceedings. San Antonio: Association for Computing Machinery, 1991.

Marshall, Catherine, Frank Halasz, Russell Rogers, and William Janssen.
"Aquanet: A Hypertext Tool to Hold Your Ideas in Place," in P.D. Stotts and R.K. Furuta, eds., Hypertext '91 Proceedings. San Antonio: Association for Computing Machinery, 1991.

Martin, J.
Hyperdocuments and how to create them. New York: Prentice Hall, 1990.

McDaid, John.
"Hypermedia as an ecological context for writing," in Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, eds., Evolving Perspectives on Computers and Composition Studies: Questions for the 1990's. Houghton, MI: Computers and Composition Press, 1991.

McDaid, John.
"Breaking Frames: Hyper-Mass Media," in E. Berk and J. Devlin, Eds. The Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Maddox, Tom.
"The Electronic Frontier." Locus (December, 1992).

Moulthrop, Stuart.
"In the Zones: Hypertext and the Politics of Interpretation." Writing on the Edge 1 (1) (1989), pp. 18-27.

Moulthrop, Stuart.
"Hypertext and the Hyperreal," in N. Meyrowitz, ed., Hypertext '89 Proceedings, pp. 259-268. Pittsburgh: Association for Computing Machinery, 1989.

Moulthrop, Stuart.
"Reading from the Map: Metaphor and Metonymy in the Fiction of Forking Paths," in G. P. Landow and P. Delany, eds., Hypermedia and Literary Studies, pp. 119-132. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

Moulthrop, Stuart, and Nancy Kaplan.
"Something to Imagine: Literature, Composition, and Interactive Fiction," Computers and Composition 9 (1991), pp. 7-23.

Moulthrop, Stuart.
"Beyond the Electronic Book: A Critique of Hypertext Rhetoric," in P.D. Stotts and R.K. Furuta, eds., Hypertext '91 Proceedings, pp. 291-299. San Antonio: Association for Computing Machinery, 1991.

Moulthrop, Stuart, ed.
Special Hypertext Issue, Writing on the Edge 2 (2) (1991).

Moulthrop, Stuart.
"Toward a Rhetoric of Informating Texts," Proc. 1992 European Conference on Hypertext. Milano: Association for Computing Machinery, 1992.

Moulthrop, Stuart
"Hypertext and Informand: An Experiment in Rhetoric." Writing on the Edge 3 (3) (1992). [World Wide Web version also available]

Moulthrop, Stuart.
"You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media." Essays in Postmodern Culture. Ed. E. Amiran and J. Unsworth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Moulthrop, Stuart.
"Electronic Fictions and 'The Lost Game of Self.'" New York Review of Science Fiction #66 (February, 1994). 1, 8-14.

Moulthrop, Stuart.
"Fearful Circuitry: Landow's Hypertext." Computers in the Humanities. 28 (Fall, 1994): 53-62.

Moulthrop, Stuart.
"Rhizome and Resistance: Hypertext and the Dreams of a New Culture," in G. P. Landow, ed., Hypertext and Literary Theory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.

Mylonas, Elli, and Mark Bernstein.
"A Literary Apprentice," Proceedings of the 19th International Conference for Literary and Linguistic Computing. Oxford: 1992.

Nelson, Theodor Holm.
Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Redmond, WA: Tempus Books, 1977. (Reprinted by Microsoft Press.)

Nelson, Theodor Holm.
Literary Machines. Sausalito, CA: Mindful Press, 1982.

Nielsen, Jakob.
Hypertext and hypermedia. New York: Academic Press, 1990.

Parunak, H. Van Dyke.
"Toward Industrial Strength Hypermedia," in E. Berk and J. Devlin, eds. The Hypertext/Hypermedia Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Samuelson, Pamela.
"Some New Kinds of Authorship Made Possible By Computers and Some Intellectual Property Questions They Raise." University of Pittburgh Law Review 53 (3) (1992), pp. 586-704.

Shneiderman, Ben.
Designing the User Interface-Strategies for the Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd ed. . Reading, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley 1992.

Slatin, John M.
"Hypertext and the Teaching of Writing," in E. Barrett, ed., Text, Context, and Hypertext: Writing with and for the computer. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.

Slatin, John M.
"Reading Hypertext: Order and coherence in a new medium." College English 52 (1990), pp. 870-883.

Slatin, John M.
"Is there a class in this text? Creating Knowledge in the Electronic Classroom," in E. Barrett, ed., The Social Creation of Knowledge. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.

Spiro, Rand J. and Jihn-Chang Jehng.
"Cognitive Flexibility and Hypertext: Theory and Technology for the Nonlinear and Multidimensional Traversal of Complex Subject Matter," in D. Nix and R. Spiro, eds. Cognition, Education, and Multimedia: Exploring Ideas in High Technology. Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990.

Zellweger, Polle T.,
"Scripted Documents: A Hypermedia Path Mechanism", in N. Meyrowitz, ed., Hypertext '89 Proceedings, pp. 1-14. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1989.
Zellweger, Polle T.,
"Scripted Documents: A Hypermedia Path Mechanism", in N. Meyrowitz, ed., Hypertext '89 Proceedings, pp. 1-14. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1989.
Zimmer, Carl,
"Floppy Fiction", Discover 10 (11) (November, 1989) pp. 34-6


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