The future of fiction is decentralized.
The year is [CURRENT YEAR].
Literary fiction has been DISMEMBERED, its cracked and severed limbs crumpled into the narrative space of the PURITY COFFIN.
Drained of life, the future of the form is barren, desolate…
(or is it?)
MEANWHILE, an international network of pseudonymous artists and cryptocurrency engineers are feverishly working on a singular mission: to EMANCIPATE the production of contemporary fiction from centralized systems of homogenization and control.
Using the latest advancements in computer TECHNOLOGY, pseudanons are SELF-PUBLISHING PDF’s with sheer abandon, surfing the FRONTIER of possibility with ripples of joy bursting forth from their hearts.
Watch out, friends!
These waters are TREACHEROUS!
What shall be the fate of our heroic pseudanons?
Will their words be cast into the SERRATIONS of the spatially-distributed MOB?
Or will their works enter the ETERNAL PANTHEON of literary greatness?
Top Posts:
Critiques of contemporary literary culture:
Literary culture is purity culture: On the Verso books piece and the state of literary fiction
The decline of literary fiction and the principal-agent problem in modern publishing
Decentralized fiction (distribution and infrastructure):
Online pseudonymity and the post-facial author: the alt-lit case for peeling off your face
How to spectacularly fail at marketing your book on 4chan's /lit/erature board
Niche literary podcasts and the spatially-distributed Parisian salon
Androgenic literature as a reclassified genre:
wake up babe, new fiction category (ANDROGENIC LITERATURE) just dropped
ANDROGENIC LITERATURE REVIEW Vol. 1: Nutcrankr by Dan Baltic
ANDROGENIC LITERATURE REVIEW Vol. 2: Dragon Day by Matthew Pegas
ANDROGENIC LITERATURE REVIEW Vol. 5: The Black Album by Matt Pegas
New Wave fiction (a new literary movement):
Cope re: literary fiction & AI: