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MIT's Media-in-Transition program is meant to "exploit some of the accretive, hypertextual and interactive capacities" of the new medium of cyberspace. Between 1997 and 2000, they focused on science fiction hoping to "encourage us to read science fiction as a mode of 'vernacular theory,' aiming to make current debates about new media accessible to a popular audience."

The website includes a 1997 essay Media and Imagination: A Short History of American Science Fiction. From their 3-year run, they have included interviews with these sf authors:

• Nalo Hopinkson/Connie Willis


• Ben Bova


• Greg Bear/Gregory Benford


• Hal Clement/Jeffrey Carver


• Pat Cadigan


• Michael Resnick/Alexander Jablokov


• Neil Gaiman/Craig Shaw Gardner


• Octavia Butler/Samuel Delany


• J. Michael Straczynski/Alexander Jablokov


• Frederick Pohl/James Patrick Kelly


• Joe Haldeman/Gregory Benford


• Orson Scott Card/Allen Steele


• Ellen Kushner/Sarah Zettel

Share: | Posted by John on Thursday March 09, 2006 - 3:36 PM | Category: Web Sites | © 2006 SF Signal

wow...hypertext story telling and cd-rom choose your own adventures. And that was only 7 years ago. How far we have come.

Of course I played halo 2 for like 10 minuts and it still feels like I am riding on a rail. It looks prettier then Zork but that is about it.

Posted by joshua corning on Thursday March 09, 2006 at 9:23 PM