When reading “The Unknown”, I came across this sentence, “Dirk had been driving while Scott typed.” I clicked on his name and as expected, read a description of him and how he got into another fight. With curiosity, I then clicked on the word fight to learn about how Scott broke up a fight between two people. Although, I didn’t have the chance to learn about “driving” or “Scott” from the initial sentence to have a more complete understanding of what’s going on, I was still contented at that point, to have read randomly and understood enough about what I discovered. This is amazing, with what hyperfiction can do in front of your screen. This is extremely appropriate for readers like me, who cannot spare the time to finish an entire book. With hyperfiction, I can still enjoy the thrills of fiction without having to spend extra time and effort in obtaining and reading a book. 

            I was also particularly intrigued in one incident when reading the hyperfiction in which I came across this sentence, “…our fourth Unknown anthology, the Unknown cookbook.” With great curiosity yet again, I clicked on the hyperlink “Unknown cookbook” and was really surprised at what I saw. There on the screen, was a recipe of “Duck tails in Salamander Syrup!” This apparent irrelevant connection to the theme of the hyperfiction, clearly demonstrated the marvelous flexibility and enabled fusion of unrelated themes brought about by hyperfiction. These kinds of “surprises” definitely, cannot be found from books and these “novel surprises” kept me curious in wanting to find out more about what I can discover in this new found realm of fiction.

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