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"Paleo E-books": E-books from before the dawn of the e-book age
Lately I've been writing some columns on TeleRead looking back at writing groups that were cranking out Internet fiction years before the term "e-book" even entered common usage. Here's the first two:
http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/26/supergu/ http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/27/t...-of-netheroes/ These groups (and the others I'll be covering in future entries) have copious archives. At last count, Superguy had over 12 and 1/2 million words in its archives. It even has a handy CGI script to retrieve just those archives which need reading. Free to read, some great stories (though granted, some pretty lousy ones too), fascinating stuff. See the links for more details. I'll be writing about more "Paleo E-book" sources in future columns, and will link them in responses to this thread. |
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You might check out back issues of Quanta:
http://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/quanta/ Quanta was the earliest ezine I was aware of, and ran from October 1989 to December 1993. It was edited by Daniel K. Appelquist and featured workd by Peter David, Jason Snell, Jacqueline Carey, and others. He was also kind enough to publish in Quanta my first semi-pro short story, "Illusions of Reality", which is absolutely terrible and should not be read again by anyone ever. Last edited by sirbruce; 04-27-2009 at 05:52 PM. |
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There's another e-zine called "Dargon" that apparently started out as a collaborative writing circle like Superguy and LNH, only it started in 1985. (I don't have any experience with it, though, and only learned about it recently.) Might do a catch-all issue later with it and Quanta and others I've not been involved in.
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The archives are still available on-line in HTML, but the links to the PDF and Postscript versions seems to be broken (perhaps temporarily). |
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Cool! I'll check 'em out; probably end up doing a "catch-all" entry at the end where I talk about the various forums and stuff that I don't cover elsewhere.
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Here's my next Paleo E-books column, covering alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo, alt.pub.dragons-inn, and alt.pub.havens-rest.
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Cool, I remember Chatsubo. Never knew they actually managed some anthologies, though! Awesome.
You should track down the editor and see if the contracts had electronic display rights. It would be great to have these in ebook form. |
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Cool, I've been really enjoying those articles at Teleread, should have guessed the writer was over here.
We did something similar (just a few friends) on an old network where I used to work but thankfully my random thoughts are probably sitting on some rotting tape in a dusty basement. ![]() |
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My next column is up: animé fanfic and Undocumented Features.
http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/u...nted-features/ |
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My final "Paleo E-books" column, with links to lots of fun sites and resources, is now up:
http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/30/p...ives-to-zines/ |
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Good job!
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