Victory Garden

The Gulf War and its media frenzy serve as the backdrop for this sprawling tale of campus politics, seduction, war, and dissent.

In the winter of 1991, Emily Runbird is compelled to leave graduate school for a position as a postal clerk in the Gulf War. She also leaves her lover, another graduate student named Victor Gardner, who has more than his share of trouble on the home front after Jude Bush, an undergraduate with a curious past, embarks on a mad campaign to seduce him. Meanwhile, Emily has made it clear that her true love is Victor's middle-aged and possibly deranged thesis advisor, Boris Urquhart.

Robert Coover called this hypertext "indispensable... No one has taken on the hard questions about hypertext and fiction or played so intrasigently with the myriad possibilities and obstacles of this new art form as Stuart Moulthrop, its leading practitioner and theorist. The publication of his first full-length narrative work, Victory Garden, marks a new stage in hyperfiction's development."

The Victory Garden CD-ROM works with Windows/PC and Macintosh computers.