Mojibake.
It rolls like this. My wife, Kristy, has written one heck of a novel entitled Beautiful World. It's about a handful of people who visit - and in some cases live in - a virtual world named Irokai that's undergoing some significant growing pains. It debuts at Further Confusion in its fully edited and completed form (epilogue and all!) in both dead tree and e-book formats.
To celebrate this fact, I wrote a short story set in the world. As far as I can tell, it doesn't require having read the novel, but it will give away a couple events that happen without spoiling them too much. If you've read the novel as it was posted online, I hope the short story brings you right back to that world. If you haven't read the novel yet, I hope it serves as quite the appetizer.
The name of the short story is "Mojibake". I hope you enjoy it, and thanks in advance for taking the time to read!
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To celebrate this fact, I wrote a short story set in the world. As far as I can tell, it doesn't require having read the novel, but it will give away a couple events that happen without spoiling them too much. If you've read the novel as it was posted online, I hope the short story brings you right back to that world. If you haven't read the novel yet, I hope it serves as quite the appetizer.
The name of the short story is "Mojibake". I hope you enjoy it, and thanks in advance for taking the time to read!
This entry was originally posted at http://electrickeet.dreamwidth.org/21084.html. Please comment there using OpenID.