In the discussion on our website leading up to this conference, I detected—are you ready for this?—a kind of lament for the Golden Age of Hypertext, which perhaps has already passed us by. But the fact that hypertext is alive and well is evidenced by the AltX/trAce cowinner, The Unknown, a collaborative fiction about the imagined adventures of three supposedly rich and famous writers on a mock book tour all over the world. Genuinely multisequential and massively rich in story material, written by three friends, all of whom are with us here tonight. And so, that book tour of theirs continues, for here to launch our night of readings, with a multivocal as well as multimedia performance, are its authors: William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton.