Some of you may be aware of the Continuous Coast project, an open-content shared world which we began in 2008. In celebration of the New Year, we’re offering free fiction from each of the Dream Café members. For stories from Reesa Brown, Steven Brust, and Kit O’Connell, visit Continuous Coast.
Continuous Coast Fiction from Dream Café
January 1st, 2009 by kit · 10 Comments
Tags: Continuous Coast · Reesa
10 responses so far ↓
1 Rene // Jan 1, 2009 at 8:27 am
Fantastic! Thanks, you guys. Looking forward to reading them.
2 Kara // Jan 2, 2009 at 12:43 am
Those were pretty wonderful. Thanks!
3 Scott // Jan 2, 2009 at 11:45 am
Congrats! I found your site a few months ago, and I’ve been excited about the eventual opening of the CC portal…
4 BSic // Jan 2, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Nice work.. Any chance on bluff turning into more than a short?
5 Goat // Jan 2, 2009 at 10:37 pm
Ok, so as I understand it, this is a site where you three post short stories? Are they based in the same universe? What exactly do you mean by “open-content” and “world”?
6 kit // Jan 2, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Rene@1: I hope you enjoy them!
Kara@2: Thank you!
Scott@3: Thank you, and thank you for the well wishes you sent us.
Goat@5: The Continuous Coast project is a shared world project, not unlike Bordertown or Liavek, in the sense that many artists and creators will be collaborating together on creating in a common setting. What we mean by Open Content is that as the project develops, we’ll be releasing extensive notes on the setting itself.
Right now we’re still in our prologue, or beta phase, but as the project develops, that site will feature not just stories — and from authors other than the three of us — but also artwork and artifacts from the world. Since the world is under an open license, not only are fan creations explicitly OK, but they can become canon too if they fit well and are submitted to us.
Goat, thanks for giving me an opportunity to ramble on about this a bit. :)
7 Rene // Jan 3, 2009 at 11:32 am
Kit- they were great. I enjoyed the variety of subject matter and tone. It was a good selection of voices.
It’s fun trying to piece together the drips and drabbles of information.
8 Goat // Jan 3, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Kit – My pleasure, I enjoy a good ramble. Now that I understand I’m more than a little excited about the project. I can’t wait to watch it grow and to one day with great excitement and no small amount of trepidation make a submission myself. I know I’m getting ahead of myself, and perhaps of yourself, and the selves of others on the board, but when the time comes you three can expect a query letter from me. Yes… very querying…
Oh, I tented my fingers on that last part, just so you get the full effect. Things like that are part of a concept I call “wit though the absence there of”, it includes but is not limited to “Your face…”, “Your mom…” and anytime you respond to a witty zinger with a grade school level “poophead” style retort.
9 j h woodyatt // Jan 14, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I was quite pleased with what I saw. It strikes me as similar to as a mashup of Hakim Bey’s T.A.Z. and Visit Port Watson by Anonymous, but it has a nice pronoiac ambience to it that I find refreshing.
I’m talking it up to my friends.
10 skzb // Jan 15, 2009 at 12:27 am
Many thanks, jh. Kind of you to say.
(Hmmm. There’s a Port Outreach mediator named JH…that isn’t you, is it?)
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