The Monster Story Conference

An experimental science fiction novella by Luke Burrage. Length: 35,000 words (equivalent to about 150 pages) Release date: 10th February, 2010 Cover art by Stefan Kernjak. Read it now in your browser! Download links below.

Long description:

Three men sit in a room. Their mission: by the end of the day, create a brand new science fiction adventure story, and it has to include monsters. Whose vision will be realized?

I wrote and edited this version of "The Monster Story" in four days in February 2010, while cruising in Antarctica. Instead of taking months to release it, after many rounds of feedback and incremental changes, I thought I'd just put it up on my website right away. It is what it is; a spontaneous and experimental science fiction novella. I think working on it further would dilute the experience for both myself and the reader.

Just so you know, there exists another 35,000 word manuscript that I wrote during February of 2009, which has an earlier version of this story, told in another quirky and experimental way. Nobody else is going to see that, except my first readers who already critiqued it. And, I think, I'll probably write a longer and more traditional novel, the definitive version of "The Monster Story", before the end of the year.

This book is free!

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License, which means you are free to download it, read it, email it or otherwise share it as long as you:

don't modify the text in any way.

The license only applies to the electronic text version of the novel. If you would like to do more than read or share the text of the novel electronically (derivative works, print publishing, audio versions, film rights and other commercial interests) please email me: luke@juggler.net

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