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

[helen varley jamieson]

yes - hypercard was around in the early? or at least mid-80s, & 
definitely used for electronic fiction. i don't have links to any 
examples but i remember a friend in the late 80s was playing around with 
it as a way to create non-linear narrative work.

but this is just another example of big institutions defining firsts of 
things, like my favourite one to complain about, the tate live 
performance series so kindly brining us the first ever performance 
series curated for the web, in 2012 ... :D

h : )

On 12/03/14 8:29 AM, dave miller wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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