“Our Strange and Wonderful House”: Collected Edition
The House.
Larger than most universes. Older than most religions. Smarter than most of you. She is strange, infinite — and wonderful.
Won't you come in?
The first collected edition of the 2010s' most unique collaborative literary creation, as originally developed on Ficly.com, now presented in a clean, annotated edition with an original foreword by Aristide Twain
(Download links and further explanations under the cut.)
I didn’t write this book.
Instead, twenty-four other, wonderful people did, between May 27th, 2011 and September the 18th, 2014 — occasionally elsewhere, but mostly on the collaborative flash-fiction website Ficly.
To put together a collaborative experimental novel on a platform with a built-in character limit and no easy way of creating a table of content demonstrated a kind of quintessential human fighting spirit, but I have still taken it upon myself to assemble all these fragments, all of which were released under a CC-BY-SA license, into one coherent whole, correcting typos and straightening out formatting as I went. I have also added a Foreword elaborating on my decisions as editor, and a staggering eighty footnotes, to the ninety-odd prose pieces making up Our Strange and Wonderful House.
You can read the collected Strange and Wonderful House on Issuu, or download it for free as a PDF or an ePub.
Perhaps this project is a little far afield from the usual preoccupations of this blog, although Jenny Everywhere does feature in a few pivotal chapters of Our Strange and Wonderful House. However, I also invite the more Who-brained among my followers to give this a look, on the off-chance — if you like The Book of the War or Lungbarrow, (for different reasons,) it’s quite possible you’ll like this as well. You won’t know until you give it a look…
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