In this novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth spo
ofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of
writers who have followed his literary trailblazing. Coming Soon!!! is the tale
of two writers: an older, retiring novelist setting out to write his last work a
nd a young, aspiring writer of hypertext intent on toppling his master. In the h
eat of their rivalry, the writers navigate, and sometimes stumble over, the cult
ural fault lines between print and electronic fiction, mentor and mentee, postmo
dernism and modernism.
