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taosaur · 05-21-2016, 03:06 AM

Has anyone been following The Interface Series? It's the working title for the narrative or narratives being scattered like bread crumbs through various subreddits by Reddit user 9M9H9E9. It's being gathered up and stitched together by other users here: https://www.reddit.com/r/9M9H9E9/wiki/narrative

Both the method and the story have echoes of Burroughs' Naked Lunch, with heavy doses of Cronenberg-ian body horror, though much of the narrative is reasonably straightforward science fiction. Here and there the author purports to be inserting biographical details, saying that much of his "information" is something other than fiction, presenting himself as a recovering addict living in a group home and intimating that he is a paranoid conspiracist who genuinely believes in the danger of "flesh interfaces," though most threads of the tale are conventional, lucid and genre-literate enough to undercut that implied unreliability.

Who knows how long he'll keep it up or if it will reach any state of completion, or if the author will ever come out of anonymity. So far he's made 62 posts of varying length in 29 days. I'm a few days behind myself, but enjoying the work so far. Anyone else reading?

05-21-2016, 03:06 AM	#1
taosaur intelligent posterior Posts: 1,562 Karma: 21295618 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Ohiopolis Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2, Samsung S8, Lenovo Tab 3 Pro	The Interface Series - 9M9H9E9 Has anyone been following The Interface Series? It's the working title for the narrative or narratives being scattered like bread crumbs through various subreddits by Reddit user 9M9H9E9. It's being gathered up and stitched together by other users here: https://www.reddit.com/r/9M9H9E9/wiki/narrative Both the method and the story have echoes of Burroughs' Naked Lunch, with heavy doses of Cronenberg-ian body horror, though much of the narrative is reasonably straightforward science fiction. Here and there the author purports to be inserting biographical details, saying that much of his "information" is something other than fiction, presenting himself as a recovering addict living in a group home and intimating that he is a paranoid conspiracist who genuinely believes in the danger of "flesh interfaces," though most threads of the tale are conventional, lucid and genre-literate enough to undercut that implied unreliability. Who knows how long he'll keep it up or if it will reach any state of completion, or if the author will ever come out of anonymity. So far he's made 62 posts of varying length in 29 days. I'm a few days behind myself, but enjoying the work so far. Anyone else reading?