The Eye of Argon now in print!
Yes, you read that right. Wildside Press has decided to go ahead and publish Jim Theis's infamous fantasy novella in actual print book form. Literature as a whole should feel very, very proud. A bit of background for those people who've never read it, then: "The Eye of Argon" was first published in 1970 in Osfan (a fanzine). After its publication, it was widely circulated among fan circles as perhaps the finest example of shit writing outside of a Dan Brown convention. For all you naysayers out there, here's Amazon's description:
"This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager [...] It became the ultimate samizdat, an underground classic, and for more than thirty years it has been the subject of midnight readings at conventions, as thousands have come to appreciate the negative genius of this amazing Ed Wood of prose."
It's available December 1, 2006. Order early and often!
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- By Austin Ross
- Posted on Saturday, September 16 2006 @ 9:25 pm
- Categorised in Books
- Tagged with the eye of argon
- 5 comments
O-or, I suppose, you could just read it here: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/SF-Archives/Misc/eyeargon.html
By Austin Ross
September 16, 2006 @ 9:42 pm
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One paragraph and already I have dyspepsia.
By Philip J Reed, VSc
September 17, 2006 @ 8:58 pm
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C'mon people. This is classic stuff.
By Austin Ross
September 18, 2006 @ 4:49 am
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Blotching Things Up would have been a much better title.
By Philip J Reed, VSc
September 18, 2006 @ 4:57 am
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I think I've died and gone...
By Andrew Edmark
September 24, 2006 @ 7:41 am
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