[1] In the 1993 New York Times Book Review, Hyperfiction: Novels for the Computer, Robert Coover, explained that the paths readers can take through the work are "almost literally countless.

[4] There are many recurring characters in Victory Garden, including Harley, Boris Urquhart, Veronica, Leroy, and others, such as Jude Busch, who has mental illness and attempts to seduce Victor Gardner to heal herself.

Thea, along with a group of friends, discovers that a popular local creek has been sold to a company intending to build a golf course nearby.

During a party an appearance from Uqbari the Prophet leads to a gun being fired off in Thea's backyard, which results in the intervention of police and Harley's accidental beating.

In fact, Moulthrop is more interested in questioning how a palette of information technologies contributes to—or, for those who adopt the strong reading, determines—the formation of political ideologies.

Citing Sven Birkerts' observation that attitudes toward information technologies do not map neatly onto the familiar liberal/conservative axis, Moulthrop writes: Newt Gingrich and Timothy Leary have both been advocates of the Internet...

I am interested less in old ideological positions than in those now emerging, which may be defined more by attitudes toward information and interpretive authority than by traditional political concerns.

[6] As a work of hypertext fiction, Victory Garden has been discussed and analyzed by many critics, including Robert Coover (1993[7] and 1998),[8] Silvio Gaggi (1999).

[9] Raine Koskimaa (2000),[10] James Phelan and E. Maloney (2000),[11] Robert Selig (2000),[12] David Ciccoricco (2007),[13] and Astrid Ensslin (2021).

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