ABSTRACT
As the relatively small but diverse sample of texts analyzed in this volume shows, digital technologies offer writers and programmers a whole array of tools with which they can build narratives, many of which are unavailable to authors who write in print. Hypertext provides a linking structure within which lexias can be connected in both linear and multilinear configurations; the Web, as an ever expanding hypertext system, allows digital texts to be linked to other digital texts; software allows sound, image, film, animation, and code to be incorporated into digital fiction works. Whether in terms of structure and navigation or in terms of modes and media therefore, digital technologies add something to narrative and, as analysts are keen to show, they challenge, or at least problematize, the theories of narrative that have until recently been predominantly developed in relation to print.
