Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 1

Rebooting Electronic Literature Volume 1 introduces the Electronic Literature Lab’s multimedia book series that documents pre-Web works of electronic literature held in Dene Grigar's personal collection in the Electronic Literature Lab at Washington State University Vancouver. This volume features seven of the most unique and fragile hypertexts of the early to late 1990s. Sarah Smith's King of Space (1991), the first documented e-lit work of science fiction, was produced with Hypergate. David Kolb's Socrates in the Labyrinth (1994) is one of a handful of hypertext essays produced during the pre-Web period and certainly the only one focusing on philosophy. J Yellowlees Douglas' "I Have Said Nothing" (1994), which—along with Michael Joyce’s afternoon: a story—appeared in  W. W. Norton & Co.’s Postmodern American Fiction (1997), the only works of electronic literature ever published in one of Norton’s many print collections. Thomas M. Disch's AMNESIA (1986) is a text adventure published by EA and one of a handful authored by a prominent print writer. Rob Kendall's A Life Set for Two (1996) is an animated poem programmed in Visual Basic. Judy Malloy's its name was Penelope, Version 3.0 (1993) is a retooling of Version 2.0 (1990) from the original BASIC program into the Storyspace aesthetic. Finally, Mary-Kim Arnold's "Lust" (1994) straddles the genres of fiction and poetry.