自美国Norton公司的《美国后现代小说选集》选录了两部超文本小说的的片段后, 其地位正式被文坛确认。我国台湾学者较早创作超文本小说;大陆汉语界也有学者研究,但外语界,不论是搞语言学的或搞文体学的,关注甚少。本文主要介绍文学理论与超文本技术的趋同,超文本小说的特征,和未来的发展。 After Norton’s “Collection of American Postmodern Fiction” of the United States made a selection of the fragments of two hypertext novels, its status was formally confirmed by the literary world. Chinese Taiwanese scholars have been trying to create hypertext novels earlier than others; there are also some scholars studying the Chinese language in the Mainland, but the foreign language circles, whether engaged in linguistics or stylistics, pay little attention to it. This article mainly introduces the convergence of literary theory and hypertext technology, the characteristics of hypertext novels, and the future development.