D. Reese and N. Dannison Super Secret Project

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The game begins on Monday, April 25.

Literary Review focuses on reviewing Literature (primarily fiction and poetry) by people who don't exist within a non-existent science fiction fantasy realm.

Here is where you should begin:

• Neel Krishnaswami's original document that started it all.
• Metafilter thread that inspired this wiki.
• An example of a successfully completed Lexicon game.

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Current Topic for May, 2005:
(Please read the rules and "A" articles prior to any submissions or changes.)

Proke Agnon!
The Poetry of Yurtis Milck, Assistant to the Royal Physician of Queen Kimpett III.
Proke Agnon is a statement of exasperation, akin to, "Love hurts!" or perhaps, "My heart! It is laden with the heavy chains of an unrequited love that shall surely follow me to my early grave!"

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UPDATES:

10/4/06

The work that is contained herein is absolutely too brilliant to allow it to fester any longer.  I am reviving this grand movement and I will be encouraging new blood to take up the standard.  This is all sheer brilliance.  Also, if anyone wants the pssword for the litreview email account, email me with your username and I'll agivitooyah.

4/30
I swore I'd only read one or two of the new posts before I got back to work on setting up my home network (I'm at Lan of Oz) but I was totally sucked in by the awesome articles that have been posted.  What a fascinating, if somewhat brutal, universe is emerging!  I'll be back on task shortly, but in the meantime, feel free to post any and all interesting updates to this section of the page  (it isn't "nate-only" territory, nor is any other section of this wiki).  Just make sure you include your name.  I've printed and started compiling the articles, eventually I'd like to post the articles as they appear on a seperate, streamlined, non-editable (editable?) site.  If anyone is interested in putting the site together, shoot me a line at literaryreview@gmail.com or go ahead and start hacking away.
-nate, the prodigal Hurg Hurg.

4/26
Unfortunately, my new job has drastically limited my internet access.  I'm posting this on a borrowed laptop, from a pirated wifi signal I located in a parking garage (of all places.)  I will have a work-around (hack) for this dillemma in four days.  Until then, my net access is going to be greatly restricted.  So.  I apologize - please keep up the brilliant posts - our hit count is MUCH higher than our submission rate at this point.  As for the stirring discussions going on - please make your "dibs" on bibliographical articles within the discussion pages for the articles themselves.  For example, if you see "B'gnagnian Tyumpists in Forknian Literature, a Clinical Analysis of Milck's Early Ut Syndrome" and you decide, "Zarquad!  I want to write that article!" Call dibs on it within the citing article itself.  In the mean time, talk amongst yourselves, vote on rule changes, and modify the rule page accordingly.  Make sure you get a reasonable number of votes before modifying a rule.  Like...at least three.  Heh.  I shall return shortly.  *bamfs into the void*

4/22.
Andrew pointed out an excellent wiki Lexicon at gamegrene.com/wiki/Main_Page.  It appears that they're generating a more straight-forward encyclopedia of worlds. (In contrast, I'm trying to harness the idea that you can know nearly everything about a given culture by studying that culture's classic literature.)  Anyway, I really like their CSS...so much that I think I'll steal a bit of it.  :)  If anybody is interested in playing around with the format on this thing, have at it!  It is a wiki, so feel free to hack away, just make sure you label your changes in case something bad happens.  I haven't recieved any proposals for new author topics, perhaps people are satisfied with Milck at this point - anyway, if you're struck by something in the middle of the night, ("My God!  Stantson Prek's  Fifth Overture for Plerydact is actually a Yurgian villanelle!") shoot me an email at LiteraryReview@gmail.com.
Also - at some point I'm probably going to either up this thing to a paid account or migrate it to a more open-ended service - anybody know anything about the art of wiking?  Looking forward to the A articles on Milck and whatever else you come up with!  -nate

4/22.
The "A" articles for the three topics should go up by the 25th.
In your articles you may make citations beginning with any letter, though we'll need a few B citations if anyone is going to earn any points (you need reference overlap to earn points). Citations that are fictional (not referencing an article currently in the archives) shouldn't use the authors name, however, publishing house, date, and location are still important.
After reading Andrew's email, I've decided that the best course of action would be a topic a month, with the winning critics deciding the next month's topic. Once we get a few more people working on this thing we can start more than one topic a month.
If you choose to act as more than one author that is o.k. but you probably won't win anything because your score will be spread across a number of characters. (I am aware that a few masochistic entrants are interested in tearing apart their own articles.  Who am I to stand in the path of your proclivities?)
All forms of citation are fine, as long as they cover all the bases (except for author, if one doesn't exist). Proke Agnon is a statement of exasperation, akin to, "Love hurts!" or perhaps, "My heart! It is laden with the heavy chains of an unrequited love that shall surely follow me to my early grave!" You have freedom with your A articles insofar as they relate to the topic. Trust me, after the first few submissions, this thing will build itself. I will put up the page for the A articles tomorrow, for the industrious amongst us.

4/21.
We're having some problems creating new pages from the home page, Kenneth (SeedWiki site manager) is being extremely helpful in working this stuff out.  It looks like the rules page is posted and relatively stable, though unfortunately our little FAQ section might have to wait a bit Yay! It works!  Get any "A" articles ready for posting, when the blood bath shall commence!  I'll put up a "Current Score" page after the game gets going.

4/21.
I'm preparing the first "A" article concerning one of my favorite poets that I just made up 10 minutes ago, Yurtis Milck.  I've rapidly acquired some new wiki-management skills - I would highly recommend reading through the basic help sections provided below.

If you plan on taking part in this Lexicon of fictional fiction authors from fictional fiction lands, please send me an email or drop a comment in the forums.  We can't all be complete misanthropes.  My email address is dannison AT gmail DT com. 

Okay people, have fun!
-Nate

(p.s. - to make a single line return in the rich-text editor, press "Shift-Return."  No idea why it took me a half hour to figure that out.  Also, seedwiki uses brackets to make new pages; just click on "how to make new pages"...eh...why am I telling you this?  We're all clever monkeys.)

Here are a few pages to help you understand the wiki format.