I visited a hypertext cafe at a writers' festival in Vancouver in 1994. Until then I had not really been aware of the relationship between the way some of my fiction is structured, and the way hypertext works. For instance my novel The Bluebird Cafe has a primitive hypertext quality in that there is a long section at the end of the book that lists, like a glossary, some key matters from the body of the work. I imagined, when I saw how electronic hypertext works, that this glossary could have been done electronically. The Bluebird Cafe was published first in 1990. At that time I had not even dreamt of hypertext and electronic interactivity, and yet that novel finishes with the section which suggests interactivity and hypertext. There are examples of the same kind of thing throughout my work, but The Bluebird Cafe is perhaps the most obvious one.