There's a reason certain works are in the canon. The primary criterion is that a work is good literature -- it has lasting value and expresses something important or meaningful. Nobody's arguing that works like afternoon, Victory Garden, Patchwork Girl, and the rest of the modern classics sold by Eastgate are good literature. It's understandable that critics often plant their feet on solid, proven ground. Eastgate's early works are still very revolutionary in the whole spectrum of literature, but we can no longer consider them signs of the future. Too many routines of hypertext writing have been installed in the field, and we have to look at more recent works to create a more inclusive, open-ended vision of future hypertexts.