1. An alternate Pseudonym of the unidentified sf author who wrote as Dustin Lasser.

2. This joke "travesty" byline was independently used by a team of over thirty sf/fantasy authors – including Michael Armstrong, Pierce Askegren, Adam-Troy Castro, Brenda Clough, Sheila Finch, Megan Lindholm, James D Macdonald, Kevin O'Donnell Jr, Alan Rodgers, Chuck Rothman, Sherwood Smith and Allen Steele – for a novel intended to be so unpublishably bad that only a vanity press would conceivably accept it. This was a sting operation aimed at PublishAmerica, which despite claims to be a traditional publisher accepted the incoherent "novel" – later published by the auctorial collective as Atlanta Nights (2005 pod). One chapter was Computer-generated (> Oulipo); characters change Sex or die and reappear without explanation (> Reincarnation); genre Clichés include the revelation that events so far were all a dream, though the book continues for further chapters. [DRL]

"Travis Tea"

works

• Atlanta Nights (Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu.com, 2005) [pod: pb/photographic]

links

• Travis Tea

Previous versions of this entry

• 15/12/2009
• 20/12/2011