[NetBehaviour] Was this really the "world's first electronic novel" ?

[dave miller]

thanks Rob - have just added your feedback to the posting. I'm sure
HyperCard was before all of these, maybe lot of works never got any
attention. And that was around 1989

dave


On 12 March 2014 05:35, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> On 11/03/14 05:56 PM, Rob Myers wrote:
> > On 11/03/14 09:54 AM, dave miller wrote:
> >>
> http://www.thebookseller.com/news/science-museum-display-james-novel.html
> >>
> >> "An electronic version of Peter James' 1993 novel /Host/, which was
> >> published on two floppy discs, is to go on display in London's Science
> >> Museum as the world's first electronic novel.
> >
> > Almost certainly not:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Malloy
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon,_a_story
> >
> > First electronic novel by a dead tree publisher? No:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_Books
>
> There's also the first "Library Of The Future" disk for the Data Discman
> from 1991:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Discman
>
> I burnt a disk for the Discman the other year with some Cory Doctorow
> novels on. It's a shame there are no Russian sites with William Gibson
> novels texts, otherwise I'd have used those as well.
>
> > First *original* electronic novel by a dead tree publisher?
>
> - Rob.
>
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