Has anyone read the story called [I think!] "
The Shameless Ebook Writer's Disappearance"? It dealt with aliens who wish to kidnap a "
Real Author" only to find out he's a
writer of ebooks. He even self-promotes himself - endlessly and without any pangs of conscience. Strange, no?
Well....this author has NO class at all - zero class; in fact, this fellow just doesn't know when to be quiet! The aliens, a no-nonsense group of creatures (kinda like used-car salesmen or telemarketers *), get so disgusted with him that they banish him to the planet
Zondervano, where he is forced to read
Inspirational Self-Help books all day long under the watchful eyes of nondescript Keepers [?], whose one purpose is to prevent ANY communication whatsoever with anything Real. They also confiscate his 12 ebook Readers for further study. They are disappointed, however, when they discover that all these ebook-reading devices contain endless permutations of the
same story by this same ebook writer now in exile. (It's almost as if the ebook writer was suffering from a severe case of
ICC [Imaginative Constipation Crisis] and was unable to create anything new!)
I realize this scenario sounds far-fetched, but has anyone read this story? Anyway, that's all I remember about it, since I read it years ago. Unfortunately, I only remember one line from the story, a line atributed to Slllrrrz, a somewhat obese alien with an irritable eye-stalk who said, "
You're not Norman Mailer!"
Can anyone help me with this? I think the title is correct, but I could be wrong.
* = Not that there's anything wrong with used-car salesmen and telemarkers.
Don