If you enjoyed Eye of Argon...

[mdlbear]

...you'll probably like Atlanta Nights by Travis Tea. The "author" is, in reality, a consortium of 30-odd mostly SF writers and editors angered by a diatribe against SF writers on a website owned by PublishAmerica, a self-described "traditional publisher". Yes, it was offered a publishing contract, though it was withdrawn shortly after the hoax became public.

Here, for your edification, are:

• The press release
• Free e-book editions (the blurbs are well worth reading)
• Actual dead trees (at lulu.com, a publish-on-demand house that doesn't lie about what it's doing
• The Slashdot discussion (with links to other literary hoaxes), and
• A description of the "sting" operation by Andrew Burt (author of chapter 11 and the software used to machine generate chapter 34 :-). (Includes links to the manuscript, the acceptance letter, , and the publishing contract.)

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Here are Teresa Nielsen Hayden's threads on the subject at her blog, Making Light (http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight). She was an author of a chapter and close to the lead on the whole scheme, James Macdonald (aka Yog Sysop), and has extensive links to the story; the comments on the entries speak even more to the story, and include lots of contributions from the authors involved. Here is the earlier thread (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006032.html#006032); here is the later, and current, thread (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006041.html#006041).

Have fun reading; it seems everyone involved with this project certainly did, writing it!

[rowanf.livejournal.com]

Goodness. What a fun hoax. I read the first chapter though and I can't say that it is as bad as Eye of Argon. It is bad, but it isn't *funny* bad.