Eastgate Systems is a publisher and software company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts. Eastgate is a pioneer in the hypertext publishing and electronic literature and one of the best known publishers of hypertext fiction, publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry hypertexts. Its software tools include: Storyspace, a hypertext system created by Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce, and John B. Smith in which much early hypertext fiction was written, and Tinderbox, a tool for managing notes and information. Eastgate's chief scientist, Mark Bernstein, is a well-known figure in hypertext research, and has improved and extended Storyspace as well as developing new hypertext software.

Product list

• Tinderbox, a content assistant for managing, analyzing and mapping notes in a hypertextual environment
• Storyspace, a hypertext writing environment

Works published by Eastgate

• Michael Joyce: afternoon, a story (1987, 1990)
• Sarah Smith: The King of Space (1991)
• Stuart Moulthrop: Victory Garden (1992)
• Kathryn Cramer: In Small & Large Pieces (1994)
• Shelley Jackson: Patchwork Girl (1995)

Notes

See also

• Electronic literature

References

• Miller, Laura (March 15 1998). " Bookend; www.claptrap.com". The New York Times. Retrieved on August 13 2007.
• Guernsey, Lisa (April 15 1999). " New York Times: New Kind of Convergence: Writers and Programmers". The New York Times. Retrieved on August 13 2007.

External links

• Eastgate Systems, Inc. - Official Website