Eastgate Systems is a publisher and software company headquartered in

Watertown, Massachusetts Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is part of Greater Boston. The population was 35,329 in the 2020 census. Its neighborhoods include Bemis, Coolidge Square, East Watertown, Watertown Square, and the West End. Watertow ...

, which publishes

hypertext Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references ( hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access. Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typicall ...

. Eastgate is a pioneer in hypertext publishing and electronic literature and one of the best known publishers of

hypertext fiction Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links that provide a new context for non-linearity in literature and reader interaction. The reader typically chooses links to move from one node of text ...

. It publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry hypertexts by established authors with careers in print, as well as new authors. Its software tools include

Storyspace Storyspace is a software program for creating, editing, and reading hypertext fiction. It can also be used for writing and organizing fiction and non-fiction intended for print. Maintained and distributed by Eastgate Systems, the software is availa ...

, a hypertext system created by

Jay David Bolter Jay David Bolter (born August 17, 1951) is the Wesley Chair of New Media and a professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His areas of study include the evolution of media, the use of te ...

, Michael Joyce, and John B. Smith in which much early

was written, and

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, a tool for managing notes and information. Storyspace was used in a project in Michigan to put judicial "bench books" into electronic form. Eastgate's chief scientist, Mark Bernstein, is a well-known figure in hypertext research, and has improved and extended

as well as developing new hypertext software.

Product list

, a content assistant for managing, analyzing and mapping notes in a hypertextual environment. *

, a hypertext writing environment. Storyspace writing environment consists of boxes (nodes) and arrows (named links) that show connections between nodes.

Fiction works published by Eastgate

* Michael Joyce: ''

afternoon, a story ''afternoon, a story'', spelled with a lowercase 'a', is a work of electronic literature written in 1987 by American author Michael Joyce. It was published by Eastgate Systems in 1990 and is known as one of the first works of hypertext fiction. ...

'' (1987, 1990), ''Twilight, a Symphony'' * Sarah Smith: ''The King of Space'' (1991) *

Judy Malloy Judy Malloy (born Judith Ann Powers January 9, 1942) is a poet whose works embrace the intersection of hypernarrative, magic realism, and information art. Beginning with ''Uncle Roger'' in 1986, Malloy has composed works in both new media lite ...

and Cathy Marshall; ''Forward Anywhere *

its name was Penelope * Carolyn Guyer ''Quibbling'' *

Stuart Moulthrop Stuart Moulthrop (born 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction, both as a theoretician and as a writer. He is author of the hypertext fiction works ''Victory Garden'' (1992), wh ...

: ''

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'' (1992) *

Deena Larsen Deena Larsen (born 1964) is a new media and hypertext fiction author involved in the creative electronic writing community since the 1980s. Her work has been published in online journals such as the ''Iowa Review Web'', ''Cauldron and Net'', ''f ...

''Marble Springs'' (1993), ''Century Cross''(1994), ''Samplers—Nine vicious little hypertexts" (1997) * John McDaid: ''Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse'' *

Kathryn Cramer Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (born April 16, 1962) is an American science fiction writer, editor, and literary critic. Early years Kathryn Cramer is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from Columbia Univers ...

: ''In Small & Large Pieces'' (1994) *

Shelley Jackson Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is an American writer and artist known for her cross-genre experimental works. These include her hyperfiction '' Patchwork Girl'' (1995) and her first novel, '' Half Life'' (2006). Biography In her own words: "Shelley ...

: ''

Patchwork Girl The Patchwork Girl (a.k.a. Scraps) is a character from the fantasy Oz Book series by L. Frank Baum. She first appeared in '' The Patchwork Girl of Oz''. History Scraps is a teenaged (possibly fourteen) living rag doll made of patchwork, but ...

'' (1995) * Bill Bly: ''We Descend, Volume One'' (1997) *

Richard Holeton Richard Holeton (born December 28, 1952) is an American writer and higher-education administrator. Holeton's creative works are foundational in the hypertext and electronic literature genres. As a writer, his most notable work is the hypertext n ...

: ''

Figurski at Findhorn on Acid ''Figurski at Findhorn on Acid'' is a hypertext novel by Richard Holeton published on CD-ROM by Eastgate Systems in 2001 and republished on the open web by the Electronic Literature Lab, Washington State University, in 2021. It is a work of int ...

'' (2001) *

J. Yellowlees Douglas Jane Yellowlees Douglas (born J. Yellowlees Douglas; June 25, 1962) is a pioneer author and scholar of hypertext fiction. She began writing about hypermedia in the late 1980s, very early in the development of the medium. Her 1993 fiction '' I Ha ...

: ''I have said nothing'' *

Kathleen McConnell Kathleen McConnell is a Canadian academic and writer."Book launch for McConnell's collection of essays to be held at STU today". ''The Daily Gleaner'', January 18, 2013. A professor of English literature at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New ...

under Kathy Mac: ''Unnatural Habitats'' * Kathryn Cramer: ''In Small & Large Pieces'' * Mary Kim Arnold: ''Lust'' * Mark Bernstein: ''Those Trojan Girls'' * Megan Heyward: ''Of Day, Of Night'' * Wes Chapman: ''Turning In'' * Edward Falco: ''A Dream with Demons'' * Rob Swigart: ''Down Time'' * Tim McLaughlin: ''Notes Toward Absolute Zero'' * Judith Kerman: ''Mothering'' * Robert Kendall and Richard Smyth: ''A Life Set for Two'' * Richard Smyth:''Genetis'' * Clark Humphrey ''The Perfect Couple''

Non-fiction works published by Eastgate

* Roderick Coover:''Cultures in Webs'' * David Kolb: ''Socrates in the Labyrinth'' * Diane Greco: ''Cyborg, engineering the body electric'' * Eric Steinhart: ''Fragments of the Dionysian Body'' * George Landow: ''Writing at the Edge''; ''The Dickens Web''; * George Landow and Jon Lanestedt:''The In Memoriam Web'' * Guiliano Franco: ''Quam Artem Exerceas''

Notes

References

*Miller, Laura (March 15, 1998).
Bookend; www.claptrap.com
. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved on August 13, 2007. *Guernsey, Lisa (April 15, 1999).

. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved on August 13, 2007.

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Fiction works published by Eastgate

Non-fiction works published by Eastgate

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