The Challenges of Born-Digital Fiction: Editions, Translations, and Emulations: The Multimedia Accompaniment to the Print Edition

Translating Figurski Maps

 

As seen on the previous page, a feature of the Storyspace authoring system is the "Map View" that readers can use as an additional method for navigating a work of hypertext literature. In many cases, such as Richard Holeton's Figurski at Findhorn on Acid, maps are also used as an organizing system that not only structures a work but also carries symbolic meaning. The video of maps from the 2001 Edition shows, for example, the way Holeton uses the map to emphasize the number 3, reflected in the way he conceptualizes the novel—from the three characters, three locations, and three artifacts, to the number of links the work contains and the year it was published (2001, or rather 2 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 3). 

As seen in the video capture of the 2021 Web Edition, the map has been retained because of its importance as a navigational tool and symbolic structuring system for the novel. Created with JavaScript, the map approximates the functionality of the 2001 Edition. Readers can click each box of the map and access the part of the work it holds.

 

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