>On 1/28/06, Sai Emrys wrote:
>
> > > "interactive novels"
> >
> > Every one that I have seen is exclusively intended to have one path
> > *at a time* that is possible; attempting to keep track of the full
> > tree is extremely difficult. They definitely don't take advantage of
> > the actual structural net as an object in itself, which is what I was
> > imagining non-linear fiction (or poetry) would be like.
>
>Some hypertext fiction, as best as I can tell, is
>something like this: the various branchings of the
>network don't represent alternate ways the story
>can turn out, but alternate facets of the story
>one can attend to at any given time; one is encouraged
>to read much if not all of it and get a feel for how
>the bits connect. In theory the same structure
>could appear in a paper book with sections and
>branchings.
>
>--
>Jim Henry
>
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry