Bill Bly's We Descend
Bill Bly's We Descend, Volume One is a hypertext novel produced with the Storyspace authoring system and published on floppy disk in 1997 by Eastgate Systems. It is subtitled, "Archives Pertaining to Egderus Scriptor, Volume One, Rendered into Hypertext Form and with Forward and Afterword by Bill Bly. Volume Two, which contains material not found in the original version, was published by the author on the web using Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox in 2011.
The work has been indexed at ELMCIP's Knowledge Base and exhibited at the Electronic Literature Organization's first conference and media art show, State of the Arts, in 2002. It has been the subject of critical essays by Astrid Ensslin (2007), Anne Mangen (2006) and Mark Bernstein (2002). Bly has written extensively about his work, most recently for Authoring Software, a blog published by Judy Malloy, reprinted here in this book. Bly's papers, including ephemera from We Descend, Volume One, are archived at "The Bly Collection" at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, located at the University of Maryland College Park.