Rebooting Electronic Literature, Volume 2: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media

Richard Holeton's "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid"


Richard Holeton's Biography

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Version 1.0: The Earliest Drafts, from 1996-2000, Print and Digital
1.1. “Streleski on Findhorn on Acid,” Grain Poetry & Prose, Winter 1996. This short-short was the genesis for Figurski. It was the First place Prize winner in the Grain Postcard Story Contest.
1.2: Artifactions 1.1 , 1997, for Storyspace 1.3
1.3: Robert Kendall's fall, 1996, online class, offered through the New School for Social Research, on "Hypertext Poetry and Fiction."
1.4: Text produced for Professor Michael Tratner's novels course at Bryn Mawr College in spring, 1998.

Version 2.0: Canonical Version
2.1: Pre-publication “canonical” version, turned in to San Francisco State University (on diskettes) for Holeton’s MFA thesis in 1998, both Mac and Window; the first electronic thesis at the university

Version 3.0: Figurski for Storyspace 2.X on Mac, all on CD-ROM
3.1: Uncorrected proofs for PC, 2000
3.2: Early self-published version on CD-ROM, 2001
3.2a: Unlabeled, with accompanying directions on pink paper, 2001
3.2b: Labeled with Ralph the Swimming Pig, produced for entry to ELO competition, 2001

3.3: Version published by Eastgate Systems, Inc., in jewel case with final art, 2001

Version 4.0: Figurski for PC
4.1: Beta 1999 Windows version, listed as FIG95.SSP in archives
4.2: Final 2001 version for Eastgate, listed as FIGURSKI.SSP in archives

Version 5.0: 2nd Ed., created for Storyspace 3.0 for Mac
5.1: Self-published, 2008

Version 6.0: 2nd Ed., created for Storyspace 3.0 for PC
6.1: Unpublished 2nd edition Windows version, 2008

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