hyperfiction

noun

1. nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.

2. a work of fiction in this genre.

Example Sentences

In the 1990s and early 2000s, futurists believed that we would enter a new realm of literature, dubbed "hypertext fiction" or "hyperfiction," that would be "the next big thing," as Paul LaFarge wrote in Salon in 2011.

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Intriguing, LaFarge's essay on why hyperfiction never took off mirrors many of the issues with interactive TV, now being hailed as the "next big thing" for film.

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In this new century, hyperfiction has stepped into the void of 20th-century postmodernisms like metafiction and the fourth wall, which, like most everything humans desperately try to hold onto, have lost their once reliable meanings.

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Along the way, comics, history and fringe science are retconned, reimagined and rebuilt from the genes up, in what Morrison calls a dizzying “hyperfiction” — revolutionized most notably by his ’80s and ’90s work on “Doom Patrol” and “Animal Man.”

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Some authors began searching how using hyperlinks could expand their writing towards new directions, creating hypermedia novels and sites of hyperfiction, while mixing text, image and sound.

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