A virtual reality simulator may seem an unlikely home for writers, says Robert Coover, but they’re using it to invent a new art form
Is e-literature the future or is it destined to lie on the fringes?
Throughout the eras of tablet, scroll, manuscript, codex and printed book, the oral tale has lived on in the form of gossip, anecdotes, jokes, public oratory and barroom banter. There is no reason to suppose that the extended complex linear narratives of book technology, so treasured, will not also persist, whatever the delivery mechanism. But that mechanism is now primarily digital; printing presses,…
