Index

The Book

A Bit of Barthes

Modernism

Postmodernism

Decentred

Author Options

Hypertechniques

Bibliography

Where should the story begin? How will it end? These are two of the primary questions an author must answer when creating any fiction. Hypertext foregrounds these questions of boundaries; in this non-linear environment, the author has complete freedom to discard old structural conventions and traditional ideas of closure. It is perhaps more difficult to abolish the beginning than the end. When the software is launched, there must be a screen the reader sees first. The author has a number of options.

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