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Alien Items

Huge thanks to all contributors to this. It's a nice meaty collection of stories, about 90k words in total, celebrating the best of the fiction forum and some great art work.

Cheers,

Drew.

Oh, well done all. What a remarkable community this is.



I know there have been short stories, but is this the first novel-length book (albeit a collection) to come out of Oolite?

SandJ wrote:

I know there have been short stories, but is this the first novel-length book (albeit a collection) to come out of Oolite?

Well, would would you call Status Quo, Mutabilis, Incursio, and Finis? Non novel-length books?

Commander McLane wrote:

Well, what would you call Status Quo, Mutabilis, Incursio, and Finis? Non novel-length books?

I don't know, hence the question. So I shall go and look...

Status Quo, 150pp A4, 34k words. Novella.
Mutabilis, 199pp A4, 68k words. Short novel.
Incursio, 250pp A4, 53k words. Short novel.
Finis, 204pp A4, 43k words. Short novel.

Any two together for a novel; the four together for a really good, thick, take-on-two-week-holiday paperback.

Alien Items. 232pp A4. 58k words. Short novel.

Just for reference:

The War of the Worlds, HG Wells, 61k words.
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 64k words.
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, 67k words.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, 83k words.
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien, 95k words.
Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift, 107k words.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, 107k words.
1984, George Orwell, 110k words.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 119k words.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 121k words.
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, 135k words.
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, 155k words.
Watership Down, Richard Adams, 156k words.
The Oolite Saga, Drew Wager, 198k words.

Although a few copies of these got sold too:
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, 29k words.
Animal Farm, George Orwell, 30k words.
The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien, 455k words.
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, 561k words.

Yeay! Thanks, Drew, for assembling it, and to all the authors and artists!

Btw, are you going to make it available via iBooks as well? I would appreciate that.

I would need permission from all the contributors to do that, so unlikely at present I'm afraid.

Cheers,

Drew.

To be clear, the book works fine in iBooks-the-application; tap the ePub download link on an iOS device and you’ll be prompted to open it in iBooks (or any other ePub reader you have installed). Select Open in iBooks, and it will be added to your library. The only difference from a book downloaded from the iBookstore is that it won’t automatically be synced to other devices.

Well Done Drew - so Scotland may have lost - but Alien Items is out (and now all the typos are your fault!) (And so the Cosmic Balance is maintained)

DH