Michael Joyce (writer)

Michael Joyce (* 1945) is an American professor of English at Vassar College in upstate New York and hypertext author.

His pioneering hypertext afternoon: a story, published in 1987, was one of the first hypertexts, ie non-linear texts, which could be regarded as serious literature. Here Joyce has experimented with the genre of the short story in several directions. The story was created with the software Story Space and digitally published from the publisher Eastgate. It is ambiguous, the narrator perspective is unclear, there is tension and subtle elements, the meaning can vary greatly depending on the read path. The story is divided into short pages, one decides to read what you want to read next page. This results in multiple stories.

Works (excerpt)

• Twilight, a symphony: a hyper- fiction ( 1996)
• Was outside Ireland: a novel (1982 )
• Of two minds: hypertext pedagogy and poetics (1995 )
• Othermindedness: the emergence of network culture (2000)
• Morality tales and meditations: technological parables and Refractions (2001)