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It occurs to me Not Providence could be sucking in people who do not know me via real life or Blogger (is, in fact, judging by my analytics); and that the original introduction to Not Providence happened about 4 months ago, was made via a blog post that is buried and linked pretty much nowhere, and is full of introductory statements that are not necessarily relevant now. So, in the interest of fostering understanding and having an excuse to link to something on my Twitter feed besides Nicer Film Titles, here I go, stating the obvious.
Not Providence is, as the sidebar link says, serial fiction, updated weekly. Every Tuesday at about 9am, I upload the newest section of the story for your reading pleasure. Over the course of the week I answer reader questions, prepare annotations, and otherwise get ready for the next week's outburst (in addition to working on the writing I get paid for and that proofreading thing that keeps me fed and clothed).
Some have called it a "serial novel", but that's not quite accurate; it is more a series of serial novellas, with a contiguous universe and a clear continuity between them—Book One feeds into Book Two and so on, but with each book clearly telling one story in and of itself as well as the greater story of Randall, the peacekeepers, and the angle men. That said, reading them like a novel probably won't hurt, at least as far as avoiding spoilers.
Now, what's it about? Well, I believe in the narrative revealing a lot of the story for itself; but the closest genre term I have heard for it is China Mieville's "weirdboiled". It's a little bit Raymond Chandler, a little bit H.P. Lovecraft, a little bit Jack Kerouac and a whole lot me. It's a story about a 2009 that is, like so many 2009s, not quite our own; about a world still recovering from a moral panic and a massive disappointment; and about the little sparks of something special and wicked left in that world. It's also got vodka gimlets and some jokes at the expense of English majors.
Not Providence (God, HTML makes that a bitch to type) runs under very few rules outside the rules of English; but what rules it does have can be found here. Mostly, it's a promise that I will end it on an actual ending; that I will respond to your emails about it; and that all I require from you is enjoyment.
There. That's all I have to say on the subject. Now go. Read. And thank you.
Not Providence is, as the sidebar link says, serial fiction, updated weekly. Every Tuesday at about 9am, I upload the newest section of the story for your reading pleasure. Over the course of the week I answer reader questions, prepare annotations, and otherwise get ready for the next week's outburst (in addition to working on the writing I get paid for and that proofreading thing that keeps me fed and clothed).
Some have called it a "serial novel", but that's not quite accurate; it is more a series of serial novellas, with a contiguous universe and a clear continuity between them—Book One feeds into Book Two and so on, but with each book clearly telling one story in and of itself as well as the greater story of Randall, the peacekeepers, and the angle men. That said, reading them like a novel probably won't hurt, at least as far as avoiding spoilers.
Now, what's it about? Well, I believe in the narrative revealing a lot of the story for itself; but the closest genre term I have heard for it is China Mieville's "weirdboiled". It's a little bit Raymond Chandler, a little bit H.P. Lovecraft, a little bit Jack Kerouac and a whole lot me. It's a story about a 2009 that is, like so many 2009s, not quite our own; about a world still recovering from a moral panic and a massive disappointment; and about the little sparks of something special and wicked left in that world. It's also got vodka gimlets and some jokes at the expense of English majors.
Not Providence (God, HTML makes that a bitch to type) runs under very few rules outside the rules of English; but what rules it does have can be found here. Mostly, it's a promise that I will end it on an actual ending; that I will respond to your emails about it; and that all I require from you is enjoyment.
There. That's all I have to say on the subject. Now go. Read. And thank you.
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