The Unknown: An Anthology is a work of experimental fiction collaboratively authored by four then-unknown writers, the print translation of The Unknown: a Hypertext Novel, the esteemed and often-cited winner of the 1998 trAce/altX Hypertext Contest, judged by eminent novelist Robert Coover, who described The Unknown as "genuinely multi-sequential and massively rich in story material." Decadent, comic, lively, dark, and satirical, the fragmented novel explores the millennial collision of literature, technology, and commerce.