[Nettime-bold] Richard Holeton _FIGURSKI AT FINDHORN ON ACID_

["Diane Greco" <dianegreco@earthlink.net>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
6 September 2001

Eastgate Systems Publishes FIGURSKI AT FINDHORN ON ACID

WATERTOWN, MA--Eastgate Systems, the premier publisher of hypertext and
hypermedia in the United States, announces the publication of Richard
Holeton�s FIGURSKI AT FINDHORN ON ACID, a hypertext screwball comedy about
one man's quest to authenticate a seventeenth-century mechanical pig
discovered washed up on the beach at Findhorn Park.

    http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Figurski.html

Published by Eastgate for distribution on CD-ROM, FIGURSKI AT FINDHORN ON
ACID is the story of Frank Figurski, a post-doc with a murderous past who
becomes obsessed with verifying the authenticity of an antique mechanical
pig. Frank�s porcine quest is hindered by the interventions of a no-hands
cup flipper and a sly journalist, and by the fact that Figurski's on acid.
FIGURSKI AT FINDHORN ON ACID is a hypertext, a collection of interactive,
interlinked documents through which readers create their own routes and
connections between characters, objects, times and places. FIGURSKI AT
FINDHORN ON ACID allows for many possible plots and outcomes and each
reading is potentially unique.

    Holeton's hypertext belongs in the tradition of screwball comedy, but it
    raises that tradition to the level of metaphysics-a cross between Borges
    and the Marx Brothers.--Michael Tratner, Bryn Mawr College

Holeton will give a reading of FIGURSKI AT FINDHORN ON ACID on Friday, 14
September 2001, at Stanford University. This event is hosted by Academic
Computing and Stanford University Libraries, in association with
eNarrative 3, an Eastgate-sponsored conference in San Francisco on Sept
15-16 (http://www.eNarrative.org ).For more information about the reading,
contact Diane Greco: dgreco@eastgate.com

Figurski at Findhorn on Acid
by Richard Holeton
Eastgate Systems
ISBN 1-884511-40-6
(CD for Windows and Macintosh)
$25.00

    http://www.eastgate.com
    http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Figurski.html

Richard Holeton is Head of Residential Computing at Stanford University
where he formerly taught writing for eleven years while also conducting
research in student computer-mediated communication. He is the author of
several writing textbooks, including the anthology _Composing Cyberspace:
Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age_ (McGraw-Hill,
1998). His fiction has appeared in _Black Ice_, _Five Fingers Review_, and
other literary journals.

Eastgate Systems is the premier publisher of hypertext and hypermedia in
the United States. FIGURSKI AT FINDHORN ON ACID joins more than 35
original hypertexts in Eastgate's distinguished catalog of original
hypertext fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Eastgate's hypertexts are
taught in universities and colleges worldwide, and have delighted a
generation of pioneering readers.

    http://www.eastgate.com
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Diane Greco                         dgreco@eastgate.com
Eastgate Systems, Inc.                voice: +1(617) 924-9044
134 Main St Watertown MA 02472 USA    fax:   +1(617) 924-9051
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