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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Nemo 9 (Cern Zoo) guidelines here: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cerne_zoo__guidelines.htm | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
I must give this a whirl, Dez. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
I hope you do, Tony! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
6. You may submit the story under your real name or anonymously. If the latter, you will be asked to reveal your real name when and if the story is placed on the short list. That puts me off. I demand my pseudonymousness! And inspiration. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Your real by-line, I mean. I'll go and change it. Thanks, Albie. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
That'll be fifty quid consultancy fee, please.  Right, now just to get inspired. How do you do it again? Hmmm, I'll try straining noises. HUNNNNN! ARRRRRRR! JUUUUUUUUUUP! Nope. I think you have to stand in a doorway and do it. Facing east. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
Hmmm, a headache. A zoo of headaches...headaches... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100 |
I'll be submitting something under my psuedonym: Ramsey H. Campbell. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Not J Ramsey Campbell? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Des, did you like that submission from Stephen G F King? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.15.100 |
Don't forget James BM Herbert. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
N. John Harrison. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.12.245 |
My other psuedonym is Craig King-Campbell-Lovecraft-Poe-et.al.-were-all-hacks-in-comparison Schwartz. It's what I published "The Scariest Story Ever Told Times Infinity" under. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
It's what I published "The Scariest Story Ever Told Times Infinity" under. ==================== Did you know there is a story called: "The Scariest Story I Know", in nemo 5? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemonymous#Nemonymous_Five_.28Nemo_Book.29 | ||
| Alansjf (Alansjf) Username: Alansjf Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 93.97.93.216 |
Hmmm, interesting title. Plenty of time, thankfully; I'm going to have to give this one some thought. Let's see if I can't go one better than last time ... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.247.19 |
Um. What's a "cerne"?... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/majorsites/cerne_abbass.html | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I find those guidelines very confusing, Des. So, basically, you just want any kind of story on any kind of theme judged as suitable by its author. If that's the case, the guidlines can be translated as: send me any story you want. Which means that, in essence, the first rule of these guidelines is, there are no guidelines. :-) Yes? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Exactly. I knew I could depend on you, Gary. Cone Zero guidelines were similar - and the book has had stunning reviews so far. :-) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Yeah, you can always depend on me to be confused. :-) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Those of you who submit a story to CERN ZOO may also want to look at this free cash competition regarding CONE ZERO linked here: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cone_zero_author_identification_competition.htm You need not buy this book or even read it, to enter this competition. Also, if you are able to commit to reviewing CONE ZERO on the internet or elsewhere, please apply to me for a free review copy | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
So Cerne Abbass could be the name of a character? Or something a madman shouts? Or a make of shoes? Or an Abba musical? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
Oh, It's Cern Zoo. So a zoo...with lots of stick figure animals in a blackhole with massive cocks? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Edvard Crunch's Screaming in Vigeland Park, Bird Flurking, Angel Alligators, Giants and Atoms... | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
What would happen if people had sex while in the circle of the Hadron collider? Would they be born giant clubby people? All clubby and giant? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
The Zoo in my novel 'The Hawler' (2005): "In a part of the city, there was a zoo. And it was known by the Authorities that any dream sickness affecting the rest of the city did not affect the zoo. There seemed to be individuals in charge of the city that the ordinary citizens failed to recognise or ever knew they existed at all. These Authorisers, so-called, had some mandate to keep parts of the city as reservations of clear sense where dream was clearly recognised as dream and real life as real life, and never the twain should overlap. Strangely, perhaps, the zoo grounds were one such reservation and those citizens suffering from the dream sickness often resorted there on their holidays just to be certain about themselves and about reality and, indeed, about the dreams that they still dreamed when at the zoo but they actually knew they were dreams, knew them for what they were. How they knew this fact was similar to going abroad to sunny climes for ones holiday away from the cold, dank, often dark city and believing it was for the sake of enjoyment and recreation, not the chore a holiday surely always was. Here, at the zoo, the citizens knew similarly that they were free of deceiving dreams and what they saw as they toured from cage to cage, enclosure to enclosure were real animals and creatures. Only when the citizens were asleep, at the zoo hotel, did they know they would be in danger of dreaming unlike in the surrounding city itself, where waking was no safeguard against surreptitious dreams taking over the minds: not day-dreams, but full-blooded dreams which one thought were real life when experiencing them. In the zoo grounds, however, such dreams were dreams, whilst waking was waking. The entrance to the zoo was not at all imposing and it could have served as the gates of a small factory, where people came and went after spending the rest of their time in terraced back-to-back two-up-two-downs in the less desirable parts of the city. And to be less desirable in this city would not be putting too strong a description on it. There was a turnstile just a cover to indicate that this was a place for which you needed admission, as most zoos in other cities would need. No money changed hands and when people had time off from work they came here all jolly and familified and entered the place that was hidden by tall grey walls which made them feel they were indeed going to work all over again on their holiday! The turnstile was unimpeded and they emerged into an area around the first enclosure. In the distance could be seen the starts of corridors between lines of cages, the contents of which could not yet be seen but their hubbub of loud meat could certainly be heard from this auditory vantage point just inside the turnstile. The first enclosure was empty, unlike the other enclosures beyond the cages, as visitors who had been here before could attest were full of living exhibits yet to meet the gaze of greenhorn visitors. Why an empty enclosure was the first exhibit often mystified initial visitors, but this was soon explained as the various themes panned out in interlocking concertinas of myth and logic and as the total exhibition of the zoo revealed itself to the unpaying customers filing past." -- The Hawler by DF Lewis | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
I see. http://www.delawareonline.com/blogs/uploaded_images/weirdo-796892.jpg | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
Imagine a Jules Verne like adventure where some characters build a ship that vanishes and enters dreams, and there's a big seeing-off like there was in At The Earth's Core. Er, if you want to, that is... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Now added an image to the guidelines. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
That excerpt is great. Got me tingling... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Thanks, Adriana! Meanwhile just received this from someone: "Saw your post about what the Nemo writer emailed you, concerned about feeling limited with Cerne Zoo. Not me! I take it as an extra level to the challenge, and am already deeply involved with my CZ story, with no worries about it having anything whatsoever to do with subatomic particles. After all, wasn't Cone Zero an almost-anagram of Zencore! anyway? This is yet another chance to stretch our imaginations in vastly different ways! The writers who do will obviously get your attention; the 200 who write subatomic-particle stories might wonder what they missed." | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.225.178 |
"Sincerely, Sarah Palin." | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
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| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
Des! Just subbed you a yarn! God I'm scared - not subbed a piece in literally years. I'd appreciate feedback as I feel a bit rusty... |