The first edition of Hypersphere is done:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/293930007/Hypersphere
Read it now to be able to tell your grandchildren (imaginary or otherwise) how you were one of the first to read the fourth entry in the meme quadrilogy.
Physical copies available!
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/hypersphere/18158845
As of now, my life is complete.
Also - I hereby announce this to be the death of literature and literary sense. No literature is literally needed after this bad boy. It has everything and nothing at the same time. It is the perfect static and a cultural mashup of everything. It is the dankest sphere known to man. The Hypersphere!
First of all:
Thank you for this wonderful experience. We're published now! I've been writing on this project since the first thread and I've had so much fun. I love you /lit/.
If you catch anything that is wrong in the PDF or BOOK I'll do my best to fix it. I'll link to the google doc I used for generating the PDF in a bit.
Feel free to start your own lulu accounts and sell it yourselves, I claim no sole ownership and neither should you.
>>7497314
Congratulations, /lit/. Our Ulysses come.
Thank you, tripeditor, Sam, Bottleman, Egotist and much more for contributing.
>>7497314
Can I add it to goodreads?
>>7497314
To where do my shekels go if I order a physical copy, anon?
I've just bought it. Will arrive in around 10 days.
>>7497370
There's a minimum "listing price" of $31 and a maximum discount of 50% so I priced it as cheap as I could. I'm earning $0.20 per sold copy.
Now that I'm a published author I promise to only buy drugs and alcohol for that massive amount of money.
>>7497354
Do you need anything from me? Otherwise, please go ahead. Rate it highly though!
>>7497314
Add General and Fiction under genres. Why did the cover art come out so desaturated?
>>7497380
Would you kindly give all the profits to WikiLeaks or set up a Bernie Sanders PAC? Thank you.
Also, btw - I will tweet the book over to Donald Trump (he is one of the main characters, a glorious one) in order to provoke a retweet.
>>7497385
Scribd reencodes the PDF and the "preview" on lulu can't display 300dpi pictures. But it's the most recent .tif from artanon that I used.
>>7497385
Can I add more than one genre?
Everyone who thinks this is even remotely good should chop off their balls or otherwise have their sex organs disabled, because I would rather this earth have no more children than children to whom this book would be recommended.
>>7497384
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28282177-hypersphere
Here you go, guys.
>>7497409
I'm 6'4, blonde.
I have done modelling in the past.
Girls approach me for conversation daily.
I'm going to read this on the subway and recommend it to everyone.
>>7497425
>BLACK
>"PEOPLE"
>Thanks anon
>Thanks anon
>>7497391
>Bernie Sanders PAC
Hypersphere is above political allegiance. Well, it isn't, but it is above political allegiance to Barnabus Sanderstein the Cuck Faggot Reddit Meme
>>7497394
I'll get you a lower res pic
>>7497405
Hmm... looks like all books listed under General - Fiction are categorized as both Fiction and General, but Science Fiction doesn't get listed under Fiction
Bernie Sanders wants every boy in America toked up on weed and getting welfare checks from the local mosque
>>7497409
Submitted as a five-star review on goodreads
What are your favourite/least favorite parts?
>>7497422
If you need me to add some details, now is the chance. From what I see I'm the only one with a "librarian" status.
>>7497391
>I will tweet the book over to Donald Trump
OH GOD YES
> The Hypersphere is a big fucking place, kid.
Fucking dropped. You all write like edgelords. This is garbage.
>>7497455
Well, I already did. I doubt that it will reach him, anyway. What about writing an open letter to him in order to inform him of his godlike status within the book and make him share it?
Front cover
>>7497314
>>7497453
And just for kicks
>>7497314
>>7497453
>>7497496
These are the google docs I used to create the PDFs. They are a little (20 hours worth) edited/reformatted and most inline images are dealt with so that they actually display, I noticed that the intro image to part 3 is missing. I'll add it once I get a few more complaints: or not: you can do it too!
HYPERSPHERE
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wd-5wyEoQ9ImYlcC-fn4_tb4mJsQ1-Tpo-EnYs-hU0k/edit?usp=sharing
ENDING
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VQEx4eHVtuRS7w2lTujmtLygSE6LlI4nddb4tzhGCLU/edit?usp=sharing
>>7497491
There's no option for back covers, so I'll just add this as a photo/additional materials.
>>7497314
Can't wait to binge read this trandencental piece of absolute garbage
>>7497314
I'll write down some corrections to the pdf that you can adjust, hopefully. Page numbers are solely that of https://www.scribd.com/doc/293930007/Hypersphere
Remove spacing pg.12. If it cannot accommodate for Rimjaub table then at least adjust so there is no paragraph break b/t/n pp.13-14.
Farsi poem could occupy a page in itself, use that blank space wisely.
Part II beginning illustration is missing.
Paragraph b/t/n Part II poem and "But I digress..."
Invisible paragraph can be moved back to pg. 30.
((By now, I'd like to point your attention to beginning a page with a chapter instead of leaving the title hanging at the end of the previous page, it's slightly awkward. An example being pp.47-48, not limited to this.))
pg.53, remove upper margin, move material up.
Space Out Of Joint: move to new page, vide supra.
...
pg.62, 65... I'm honestly not going thru the rest.
I had imagined, while editing the manuscript, that I was preparing a book for the very dimensions of the document, and so I manipulated much blank spaces to get the aesthetic flowing with every page when possible. Is there a way I can help fix some stuff? I have some time on me and can afford some time off my winter stay to furbish the doc.
I feel sorry for those who, in their fever, bought the book without consulting the pdf.
>>7497526
First edition is first edition
>>7497526
Neat! Please continue going it through if you want to. I'll check back in a day or so and update the book for a second edition (but do buy the first edition, it'll be extremely valuable some day.
>could occupy a page in itself
If you think like that about everything you break the 740 page limit quickly :/ (which I did, and changed back some stuff).
>I'm honestly not going thru the rest.
That's how I felt the third time I went through the entire goddamn thing.
>>7497543
>If you think like that about everything you break the 740 page limit quickly :/
What alternatives do we have, then?
>That's how I felt the third time I went through the entire goddamn thing.
I-I'm s-so sorry.
Guys, who profits off of this?
>>7497552
It makes you really wonder what sort of shitstorm we're expecting from the alt/lit movement +SJW brigade.
>>7497477
The general arc of the book is from juvenile stupidity to the genuine, entirely uncharming vitriol that comes out of an edgelord if you force them to articulate their edginess past the limits of glibness, sarcasm and insincerity.
Excerpt after a scifi parody mocking otherkin:
>Does anyone else find it uncanny how women given unrestrained status on par with men will slowly, unconsciously, practically psychically turn society into a giant personal hugbox for themselves, enslaving all the men and turning everything into a crybaby pity party that revolves around their vagina? They're just incredible. You let them loose in society and they just try to set themselves up as little petty tyrants, purely by reflex. Innocent old men in the park, dudes landing probes on other planets, it doesn't matter. If it's not directly pleasing to a woman, or if she's just in a bad mood, she'll psychically compel the mass of suppliant beta males to be her Daddy of the Moment, and then sic daddy on the thing that displeased her. They are cultural fucking poison. That’s Hyperdrive.
>>7497514
But the front covers can be switched out?
>>7497579
Only in alternative editions. Otherwise I'd have to delete the cover and upload a new one.
>>7497314
Has anybody experienced Lulu before? Are their books durable or rather shitty?
>>7497548
I genuinely appreciate your effort.
I really don't think the Farsi poem for instance is not worth it's own page. We have 20 pages to spare but that's because I made some (not so funny or interesting) very large text a bit smaller, there's room for a bit more of that but I don't like it since it breaks original intent if overdone.
But good pieces should have a bit more space, and if a chapter title can be moved down one line to be on a separate page: it's worth it.
>>7497595
This is from Lulu and has the exact same specs (only way shorter), it's perfectly fine.
>>7497605
I would love to try my hand at it if you can provide me with a platform to edit the script.
>>7497623
HYPERSPHERE
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wd-5wyEoQ9ImYlcC-fn4_tb4mJsQ1-Tpo-EnYs-hU0k/edit?usp=sharing
ENDING
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VQEx4eHVtuRS7w2lTujmtLygSE6LlI4nddb4tzhGCLU/edit?usp=sharing
You can copy the files from there!
>>7497617
Have you ordered the new book aswell? Would you call it a better one (when comparising wit hthe one presented in the pic)?
>>7497586
So do that. It's just replacing it with the correct version
>>7497650
Ordered it, yes, haven't received it (since it's been hour for an hour and the USPS have quite a few packages to deliver).
TLOTIAT is a cool book and maybe a bit more esoteric, Hypersphere is more readable and in a way better. I'd read HS again, I'd only read the BOY PUSSY page of TLOTIAT again, nothing else.
>>7497633
Just to make sure, I can't go beyond 740 pages? Also, what software would you ideally use?
>>7497841
For editing? I use google docs, InDesign would we ideal though but I don't have the space on my computer.
is Lulu trustworthy? also is it anonymous? I don't Bottleman to have my address
>>7497903
I already have your address.
>>7497903
>I loved Bottleman so much
>I had all his short stories and novellas...
value color edition?
>>7497945
540 pages max, it's too long.
dont feel like signing up an account just to get a shipping estimate
any idea how much a copy by mail will cost? i will probably be buying one before the end of the week
>>7497998
$6 to Sweden if you go for the slowest option (2 weeks shipping). Guessing it's the same pretty much all over the world.
new book when
>>7497973
I'd be happy to do an edit shooting for 540
>>7498054
I propose the following: Sun Tzu's The Art of Shitposting
>>7498103
Would be pretty funny if it was written in the same style as The Art of War.
hey can anyone with a scribd account download this for me?
https://www.scribd.com/book/269685043/Frank-Zappa-and-the-Mothers-of-Invention-One-Size-Fits-All
>>7498103
You know, I'm thinking about continuing the Bottleman gag but perhaps on a tumblr page, practice practice practice, maybe even share the blog with the critique threads. I can't take up anymore projects, /lit/.
>>7498186
>tumblr
oh god why
>>7498188
As an archive, nothing more or less.
>>7498054
Give it a few months, dont do more of the shitty halfbaked followups like the tundra sequels
>>7498207
Proper short story or poetry collection would be nice.
>>7498212
>poetry collection
I love it.
>>7498103
Or a melancholic Houellebecq flick called "The Possibility of a Shitpost"
>>7497633
Bottleman here, I think I'll have a second, corrected edition by tomorrow. I'll pull an all-nighter, no biggie.
>>7498263
Brilliant.
>>7498103
So don't know if any of you saw that but I had just recorded a video for you guys and uploaded it. Unfortunately it was only after it was uploaded that I realized you couldn't understand me because the sound was awful (probably because where I had to record).
I'll try and re-record it later because it was too shitty of quality for it to be worth publishing and leaving as is.
>>7497346
>Thank you
>Egotist
My pleasure, but let's be honest the book is a bottom bitch that does the work for me.
>>7498685
Alright, I re-recorded the same portion over again and I think the quality is much improved.
Enjoy mates.
https://youtu.be/DHWpGfTg5BU
I'll do them if/when I can but you know how it is with the Holidays.
I mean you're not alone for Christmas.
Right anon?
>ayy
>>7497314
Where can i purchase the full quadrilogy?
>>7498775
ukranian black market book stores
>>7497314
Why'd we make this?
>>7499387
Because Totalitariansm in a Tundra wasn't enough
>>7497543
>https://www.scribd.com/doc/293930007/Hypersphere
What was your favourite piece anon?
Thank you as well.
>>7498100
If someone wants to try and make an abridged colour edition, that would be pretty groovy.
so is this basically TLoTiaT again? been out of the loop recently
>>7499816
No no no. Color is nice but abridged? Come on.
>>7499816
>>7499883
I'm >>7498100. I wouldn't use the word "abridged", the first priority would be to preserve every piece of the explicit red thread through the book, and I'm confident those pieces amount to less than 540 pages. This is a very chaotic book. But yeah, that's still nearly 200 pages cut, so I understand your misgivings, but that's what it's gonna be for the color edition.
Of course, you could take the PDF and go get your own unique custom-ordered full manuscript color edition Hypersphere. If you do, we'll do a 300 page afterword and round it out to 1000 pages, just >for you.
It's like yall didn't even read east of eden
>>7497314
Anyone having trouble loading the images on the Scribd version?
Who get the money?
can anyone give a download link please ?
>>7500181
The paper
>>7500181
From the first 15 books sold I've LOST 16 bucks (since I purchased one for myself).
>>7500148
Please tell me on what pages they're gone and I'll try to fix it. Google docs can't export images so they have to be added a special way.
Bottleman here, second edition is ready at 708 (!) pages. No deletions, tried my best to emulate the master script.
Where do I upload it now?
2nd edition when? I want to cop but I'm not spending $15 on something filled with formatting errors and shit
>>7500855
Bottleman is omniscient, my good friend.
Holy shit, you did it /lit/!
Congratulations!
Who gets the money for this?
I wasn't following the threads, at what page the book becomes an actual book instead of retarded reddit tier memes?
>>7500886
Maybe mid Part III.
>>7500848
my anal hyperlink
okay now im confused. is bottleman uploading this newer version of the book to lulu, or is there only going to be the tripfag edition as a physical copy and bottlemans completed version will stay online?
>>7501079
I'll upload the correct Word document here, hopefully tripeditor will catch up and replace the first edition with my corrections.
Of course, there are minor problems that couldn't be easily circumvented without devoting too much time, and since leaving certain "formats" outweighs the profit of bettering them (in lieu of making them appear as they would on the GoogleDocs) I left them be. They are very minor, like a footnote I had to include in a picture of a segment that skips a few numbers, that sort of thing. This version - heads up to editor - has an abundance of pictures (especially for the cryptos parts, some graphs and things that required special attention) that must be clipped in order to appear, surely tripfriend knows this. I'll put up a link as soon as I can.
>>7501079
Oh, and if you're looking for the online version, I'll leave it perpetually up for consult and people who like to snoop off books online. Enjoy it, merry Christmas.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TIdoWxLOs7tVlO8MHISFAm1stJ7FEta-fL0dBe88J1g/edit?pli=1
>>7501128
>>7501149
Bottleman you are literally the bomb. happy holidays man.
>>7501156
Thanks.
Tried uploading it to Scribd, still waiting for my queue. Let's see if this works: https://www.scribd.com/doc/293980037/Oojamafilipino-or-Seventy-Second-Decked-Atrocity-in-a-Post-Westernized-Qum
>>7501210
mind making it public bro?
>>7501262
thnx bb
>>7501278
>"requires decryption key to open"
>mfw
>>7501284
I'm not operating correctly, am I?
https://mega.nz/#!4R9RRDAI!n3b_jJO3txjQopqbwA67eqJK7gR3S23J3Qvz380RmqE
Now how do we get this new edited version available in print?
>>7501341
We wait for tripeditor, or summon him. Anyone know the magic words?
>>7501128
I'll go through it and update accordingly tomorrow! (1:13 AM local time). I've spend all of my close to $2.5 I've earned from the book on alcohol so far and I'm pretty drunk.
Please do mention some o the changes though!
Ordered it...
Bottleman, publish it yourself. Tripfag is a fucking trip fag cunt trying to gyp you all for beer money. Bottles is the only one who deserves to cuck lit for free dimes and nickles, he did real work on this
Fuck you tripfag you kike. Merry Chri$tmas
>>7501658
The document is here, and I say this again albeit you must already know because I'm becoming paranoid. >>7501303
Corrections range but are not limited to:
Basic grammar mistakes (in fact, laden with them.) Only unintentional, as some excerpts build on a motif that breaks from the norm (Tyrell the Crater, Skeezy... etc.)
Tried my best to fit stories to certain pages, smoother, more logical transitions.
Slight font size adjustments (especially titles that seemed to occupy a ridiculous amount of page, all with justification.)
Tables have been screencapped and inserted instead of transcribing them, since there just was no way it'd fit. (Cryptos, the red poem, Logic/Truth, "Choose your Investigator Y/N", had to screencap some other pictures too since Word failed to present them, a precaution.)
A response to your footnote, good tripeditor.
Two, three, maybe more secret sentences here and there, don't get too hyped.
And, as I said, managed with all that to reduce it to about 708 pages, IIRC. Slightly more economical cost and space management.
>>7501747
I could use the beer money, but I'm not doing this for cash. These projects have become a little personal to me (especially since the initial failure of Kolsti and the Everglades' failure to kick - this is all before Grouse mysteriously rebounds and the thing gets published pronto - and similar /lit/ book projects that didn't take off - shout-out to the AS/CC crew, since they were primarily crushed under the juggernaut's parade, it being the Hypersphere at its very inception.) There are other examples I could go on and on talking about but this, to me, marks a small victory to me which I've sought for as long as I've browsed this very board.
I won't take pride in this alone, or any pride of that matter. Bottleman did not write Hypersphere, Anonymous did. I only used the nickname in the designated threads since I thought it gave credibility to the updated statuses I posted, it turns out that was a mistake. The trip using my name is not me, if it's worth mentioning now.
I'm just glad I can present my "art," however I find it unsatisfactory that many of my original excerpts had to be brutally screencapped by me, ruining its initial, designated (purposeful) format and inserted like mush. I took pride with everyone's work and I don't feel the paperback does it much justice, but it is what the masses demand.
I'll probably start writing serious literature soon, maybe archive it on the net, as I had remarked earlier. "Bottleman" begins and ends with Hypersphere and, despite its repute as a "reproachable behemoth framework" does not justify I use it for "online cred." So, if it so happens that someone is adopting my name, that person is a fraud. I only post anonymously.
I think it's safe to say that *this* is my final address. Take care, good folk. Stay warm and have a nice, snickerdoodleful Christmas.
>>7501788
the hero /lit/ needs but not the one it deserves
>>7501788
If it's personal then publish the damn edited version yourself
I need to own it I don't care who the money goes to if you don't
>>7501878
>I don't care who the money goes to
then just wait for tripfag to do it jeez
give me a quote from the book to persuade my fag friends into taking a look at it.
>>7501788
fuck you bottleman
Usw the old Front cover, it was way better
>>7503324
The one with the king?
Where is a normal pdf download?
>>7503328
On the scribd you can choose to download as pdf
>>7503328
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TIdoWxLOs7tVlO8MHISFAm1stJ7FEta-fL0dBe88J1g/edit?pli=1
>>7503139
“kill me senpai” ↱(somebody fuck my shit up)
Timmy Tingler, Hyperdimensional abortion, fiddles his diddle in front of the glass boobie hologram screen. Having just failed his online tesseract class for the 5th (fifth!) time, his 100 browser tabs are one-third efukt and two-thirds korean pop idol pornography.
“why it gotta be like this, senpai...” he musters as a tear rolls down his cheek and barely misses his dick. “now I c’ain’tβ never get my liberal shards degree.” Timmy logs on to FYAD, a hilarious meme-forum he frequented β-4 4Dulthood, in a fit of desperation and posts unironically, “senpai, I’m not gonna make it senpai. I want to die, i’m gonna shoot myself senpai no more of this man.”
After four more hours of getting cock sucked by korean teenies, he checks his meme tab to scout replies to his cry for help, before cumming in his eye and short-circuiting the rhombus calculator supplying his consciousness all these eons. Timmy’s spacetime corpse is plotted in another grave along the path between rooms three and four.
Centuries later, classicist ‘internet’ archivers find the unironic forum post and stamp UNIRONIC, NOT FUNNY across its file before throwing it in the smut recycle bin.
β is the last of the hyperblacks’ remaining vernacular.
>>7503139
“Listen, who is your owner? Who treated you like this?”
Fearing for his sometimes-lover mostimes-owner, Fido told Emma that he himself had been labeled as a dog by the power dialectic of the universalised capitalist machinery that demands perfect conformity to the norm or cruel rejection as defunct itinerary.
“You are right, Fido. One cannot be defined without an ‘other’, to compare is to create and without a relative we can form no scale in which to relate from. By demanding utility in sentient spirit we only create a function, an arbitrary telos tethered to the tool kit of capitalist society that exists purely as the product of another, the ability to define removed from you even, both now external, amplified to alienation, your own identity just a chain of surplus-value, money scum, mineral slag, unable to state a true self, so closely classified that you could be compounded down to canine and not even object to the authenticity of such formatting. Oh my, you are a poor monkey.”
>>7504620
/secondedition/ when?
>>7504789
I'll update it tomorrow!
A small selection of opening lines from the Hypersphere:
Part 1: Slice of Life Adventures in The Hypersphere
>Caitlyn Jenner waggles her wongus in front of a full-length mirror.
>We degenerates see a commercial for Yoplait, in which a sinewy-pretty pilates MILF lovingly prepares sack lunches for her school-aged children —one boy and the sweetest little lolita.
>David Wallace rises from his cryo chamber into another Spring day.
>You open the fridge: a pint of brown sugar-cinnamon cream cheese, disgusting, almost never used.
>There came a draft, solemn, melancholy, a little bitchy if you ask me, drifting from the open window displaying Mega City 4.
Part 2: A Scientific Study of The Hypersphere
>While the Puerile King wept the Hyperspace thrived--
>Donald Trump awoke with a thunderous laugh.
>I am seconds away from pulling an Ivan—but I will never be so terrible as to lay an unfriendly hand on my son.
>Damian gingerly caresses the dadbod abs of his Brucie Wucie.
>Under Ottoman occupation the bottle market was often said to be unstable and perhaps dangerous for the common man.
>Some people like the look of text on paper.
>Ben bin Al-Afleck was having a bad day so far.
>Hulk hogan sat alone in his room, reading his favorite Hulk Hogan manga, wondering when the backlash from the recent Hulk Hogan controversy would Hulk over.
Part III: Power Structures and Prejudice in Hyperspace, or, An Indictment of the White Race
>The year was 2015 and rape was but a long-forgotten videogame.
>It is time that we move past such gender-binary privileged white-dominated non-humanities science focused definitions of hyperspace.
>"Riko," Maki said. "Come look at what I've found on the internet."
>Timmy Tingler, hyperdimensional abortion, fiddles his diddle in front of the glass boobie hologram screen.
>Why not try to write something good, or are afraid everyone will realise how shit you really are?
>Wucie, stripped of his Christian name and the only body part he had any living attachment to, passes the time in a subterranean salon with sterile lighting, a dim fire burning in the faces of many small Japanese women.
>Social Anxiety is a very REAL disorder, affecting more than 4/3 of the American young-adult population today.
Part ᚠᚩᚢᚱ: Schizophrenic Hypertime Fragments
>When one speaks of culture one must also necessarily speak of the means with which culture is produced, the schools, the universities, the conservatories and so on.
>The Scene: the Irish glen, populated by prosperously minaretted mosques.
>Ben bin Allahflakes did not talk to anyone about his nightmares, which gradually were moving into dream territory.
>Time is liquid in the throes of the female orgasm, but by the force of her kegel-fortified will, Aelius Maximus, avatar of the matriarchal hivemind, determined that the year was 2070.
>Owning cats is worse than having white power posters in your living room: 15-20% of the US population has allergic reactions to cats while less than that number are of african-american ethnicity, and while ethnocentric propaganda produces only emotional pain, cat allergies cause physical pain that can only be suppressed by taking pharmaceuticals with side effects ranging from drowsiness to immune system issues.
>It is our policy here at GOD HAS ABANDONED US in XXXXXXXX, to provide a healthy, pleasant and safe environment free from any sort of harassment, which includes by default sexual harassment.
Part V: Escaping Hyperreality
>Anime was once a secret passion of mine.
>Approximately ten party hat symbol thirty-three micrometers above the head of Johnnie, in a dimly-lit room, ghosts of burnt tobacco emerge from three heads, exposed by the glow of a Hitachi CRT TV, black and white and wood-paneled.
>One hot March afternoon, 1968, Gewehr Foucault, long-since virginal, set out on the last tankside patrol of his tour.
>And so the door frame is a symbol of civilisation, so afraid is the civilized man that the wall should encroach on the portal.
>Does anyone else find it uncanny how women given unrestrained status on par with men will slowly, unconsciously, practically psychically turn society into a giant personal hugbox for themselves, enslaving all the men and turning everything into a crybaby pity party that revolves around their vagina?
>To me nothing ugly nor good can happen anymore.
>John Madden awoke in a thicket.
hast’ou swum in a sea of air strip
through an aeon of nothingness,
when the raft broke and the waters went over me
>If you are able to read this horrific shit, you most likely have privilege.
>>7504930
It's already updated you cockass fagman just publish the damn thing
>>7505076
>Hulk hogan sat alone in his room, reading his favorite Hulk Hogan manga, wondering when the backlash from the recent Hulk Hogan controversy would Hulk over
Why is this so funny to me?
>>7505079
>Approximately ten party hat symbol thirty-three micrometers above the head of Johnnie, in a dimly-lit room, ghosts of burnt tobacco emerge from three heads, exposed by the glow of a Hitachi CRT TV, black and white and wood-paneled.
I lost my shit right here.
>>7504930
PUBLISH NOW
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couldn't make it 2 pages because it's bad
pretty cool that you got this published, but i honestly don't know how anyone here sees this as anything but a collection of all of us shitprosing abt /lit/ as hard as we possibly can
Thanks for keeping pgs.227-228 btw
>>7506223
whew lad it just aint that good
>>7506231
I have failed...
read about 67 pages in 19 hours adn lovin it
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28282177-hypersphere
Reminder to rate and review.
The "edited" version provided by anon had too many pages.
I'm currently going through (fucking again) it to see if there's anything I can rearrange.
>>7497314
You guys are getting p good at churning these out 2bh.
Is there anything I need to read before starting this and the other /lit/ works?
>>7507041
If you have some grasp of /lit/ memes and general literary history you should be fine.
>>7507016
Had too many pages? How the hell did that happen? The Word docx is, like, 35 pages less than the first edition's.
>>7507484
Export it back to google docs and it's 743 pages
>>7507515
Oh. Then...
There's one page you can entirely delete before cryptos ([to whom this never concerns], and a blank page before Ezra's "hast'ou swum", so that guarantees two pages. I'm not sure if I left a blank page after cryptos.
would it actually make any difference if i wait for the second edition to finally become available physically or just bought the first edition up right now on lulu? what are the main differences in terms of formatting and the actual innards?
>>7497314
where can i find other books written by anonymous i will buy them all
>>7508177
theres the legacy of totalitarianism in a tundra which is also on lulu and i think there's also a zine with poetry and short stories that i don't have a link for ATM
>>7508177
https://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=legacy+of+totalitarianism+in+a+tundra&sorter=relevance-desc
Theres TLoTiaT, TLoTiaT II: Miami, TLoTiaT III: Tokyo Drift, and this new one
It's p easy to find pdf's of them tho
This cover is fucking clutch.
>>7509250
>ANONAMOUS
>>7509319
That just makes it even better.
Goddamnit tripfag what happened to "I'll update it tomorrow"
I want to throw my money at you now
Sorry about the late response m8s, I had to go see about a girl.
Okay, I think I got it to work properly. Currently uploading to lulu, have to fix the cover as the spine is too large now since it's a bit thinner.
SECOND EDITION:
https://www.scribd.com/doc/293930007/Hypersphere
http://www.lulu.com/shop/anonymous/hypersphere/paperback/product-22501738.html
There's a slight snafu about the page numbers (they restart in part 3) but all images are in the book and it's overall a little more coherent than the first edition.
To you who ordered the first edition: They're now incredibly valuable!
SECOND EDITION! WOOO!
>>7510462
>http://www.lulu.com/shop/anonymous/hypersphere/paperback/product-22501738.html
>Edition: First Edition
?
>>7510462
Thank you based anon.
>>7510680
I can't change that for whatever reason. The first edition was 720 pages though, so it is the new one.
>>7510462
What the fuck why didn't you just use bottleman's? This is worse than the first edition
>>7510958
Shit, nevermind, this is bottleman's. Still holy fuck I'd rather have the first one
>>7510462
This is really bad anon.
>>7497314
Anyone wanna come over and watch Noah Baumbach films with me?
>>7510462
I'm looking at Scribd and I'm looking at the Second Edition Word page Bottleman made and they're not compatible, does this always happen? Will my paperback look like the Scribd edition or like Bottleman's?
oh shit
hoyl fucking shit
i'm going over the google docs and it's all a fucking mess. i don't know what the hell happened to all my corrections
>>7510462
Well, absolute crap. What the ever living fuck happened to the script?
Since you've already made it available, I guess this calls for a bolstered Third Edition. Crap, when I thought everything was fine and all, Word decides to come and fuck my shit up. The upside is that now I know all the idiosyncrasies and can make amendments to more segments of the book, but damn, when you thought you were done for the day...
(Not blaming anyone, but someone should have told me Word wrapped up some images wrong, forgot to add fonts and all that crap. Christ.)
>>7501788
>>7501788
Bottleman, I purchased an original copy of Hypersphere in the first wave. take those 2 dimes and keep them in your pocket. From me.
spend them when you're a few cents short for your next beer or keep them on you as a reminder that I support you, and you deserve it for crawling and grabbing that diamond in the sewage pipe and coming out on the other side.
>>7511074
You do know those two posters aren't Bottleman, right?
You also know that Bottleman is not profiting a penny out of this?
>>7511090
Oh wait, that poster IS Bottleman. But yea, he ain't gaining money out of it.
>>7511055
Fucking hell and I already bought it
>>7511150
Sorry man, my mistake. Was so adamant on not missing this Xmas party that I forgot to doublecheck. I hope some mad meme collector one day comes by your stoop and asks you double what you paid, or some miracle.
>>7511171
It's all good, I just wish I had been more careful before shilling out the money...
Now, let's get working on a third edition so I can spend more!
>>7511184
Already ahead of you.
Tripfag is the worst creature on earth
>>7511261
Agreed
Prepare yourselves for Hypersphere, First Edition, Official Edition, Patrician Edician, the one and only true edition.
Someone make sure the author is Anon Anonymous so it's the same as the Tundra series
>>7510992
Is it too late by now, anon? Kicking & Screaming and The Squid and the Whale are my favorites, but Greenberg, Frances Ha, and Mistress America are fine too.
>>7511274
How long on a nigga ass
>>7511150
Could be valuable if /lit/ produces a famous writer who isn't Tao Lin.
New book title:
"Cover the Edge"
Thank me later.
I actually had a déjà vu while writing this post.
>>7497314
Wow, just checked this out, after seeing a number of these retarded threads. Quite the shitpost!
What the shit. I was so happy to get the images working I missed the other shit.
It was the .docx that threw me off, everything just breaks with that format.
If someone can figure out how to export it to a proper .pdf, please do tell me.
I've spent 10+ hours exporting this book back and forth already, sorry m8s.
at this point just throwing every conceviable copy of this book into the now empty ET atari pit and working on a fucking short story/poetry book is a better idea.
>>7511782
We'll try once more and see if this final edition works to our ends. If not, well, there's no point beating at it.
>>7511840
I need to own it make it happen
THIRD EDITION WHEN
>>7512171
how would this work? would it be a public google doc where anyone could add anything like in hypersphere, or should it be a thread where poems and shit are chosen by the editor and then added to a google doc after enough have been chosen?
So do one of us need to edit the fucking thing for tripfag?
Let's start writing the next thing after the start of 2016. Let's just do it.
>>7513029
I should probably just download openOffice to deal with the fonts.
Currently working though.
>>7513074
Godspeed.
>>7513074
So, hold on, both of us (you and Bottleman) are working on a final version of the book?
>>7513635
So it seems. I won't be able to start working on it today though, but I'm sure I can just take the Bottleman version and pass it off as my own.
jkjk, but seriously: I don't see the problem with two people working on it. Don't put your trust in me, don't trust anyone: that's how shit never gets done.
What were the dimensions/specs for converting the doc to paperback?
>>7514766
You've made a horrible mistake
>>7514766
Should've waited, anon.
so much promise only to be fucked in post production
what the fuck guys
Once again, what are the dimensions for converting the doc to paperback? There was a picture in the last thread.
>>7514571
Import the bottleman .docx to google docs, lower the amount of pages try to export it to a .pdf.
The files already have the right format (A5) required to print them.
>>7516748
I'm asking because I've done a full edit of the original finished google doc and now I'm going to do a heavily cut edit for the value color edition
>>7516756
What was the maximum amount of pages? 720? And for color it was around 500, right?
>>7516767
You can actually do a color version with 740 pages too! It'll cost over $100 though :S
Just a word of advice though, the problem is not editing in google docs, the problem is getting it to export to a .pdf (since it's too big for Google to do that). Not trying to be an asshole and I really do wish you luck! Just ask if you have any questions.
>>7516821
https://github.com/google/fonts/archive/master.zip
>Why did things get shuffled around so much?
Because images can't be properly exported from gdocs and bottleman though it looked better. Idk though, the first edition would have worked if had just edited it myself locally (because gdocs is the seriously the devil when it comes to exporting formatting).
>>7516868
So it's just uploading a PDF? Why upload it into googledocs and then export it? Any word editor can export a PDF.
>>7516927
That is, uploading a PDF to lulu, so why upload an edit to googledocs and then export a PDF.
THIRD EDITION
I haven't uploaded it to lulu yet, feel free to to through it and I'll change anything that's wrong.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/293930007/Hypersphere
>>7516983
Okay, I'll use this as a second template. If there are any mistakes I'll mend them myself and send a link.
I don't have the fonts downloaded, so I'm going to upload a docx for whoever does to make a PDF.
>>7505163
I always crack up at that one. 10/10
>>7516983
This one's pretty fucked too. Not as fucked as the second one, but worse than the first. I'm only 10 pages in and there are multiple instances of big spaces chopping up words.
>>7516983
holy shit it's so fucked up
maybe it just looks really bad to me because of how great it looked as a google doc
the formatting in general is just poor
and what's going on with the quotation marks in swing aleius and those bits? why does some of the text look like a stretched image.
anyway it isnt your fault tripfag so dont kill yourself too hard
>>7516983
Please tripfag, just put the first edition back up. I missed out because everyone said to wait, but looking at the doc for it, it's so much better than these last two
>>7518127
First edition was shit too
>>7518918
I don't care, we need it the way it was meant to be seen.
>>7518940
Which is what we're working on currently.
Come on team.
I believe in you guys. Don't cuck me on this one.
>>7518008
Give me page numbers and details and I'll fix stuff. I have seriously gone through the book a billion times now and I am becoming sloppy.
>>7520371
Pages 22 23 and 24 of the original you just deleted for some reason
Seriously, just put the first edition back up. Don't go to this trouble for an inferior version
>>7521212
Guys, he's trying.
>>7521379
He wouldn't have to if he'd just put the first edition back up for purchase.
>they still haven't caught on
he's fucking with the editions so that the few diehards will buy multiple copies
Tripfag is a heinous villain
>>7521511
>tfw Trip is just an angry Trump
>>7521511
>>7521921
You son of a bitch
>>7521511
Goddamnit I just want a version of the book that isn't shit.
That's it, I'm publishing the motherfucker.
I have the file up and ready to go. Someone fix the cover for me and I'll have this cocksucker published pronto
Alright, I've been off /lit/ for a while, what's the deal with this book?
>>7524369
Basically, it's /lit/'s Ulysses.
>>7524690
Sure, but what does that mean? Firstly was it written by one member of /lit/ or was it a joint project? And is it actually any good? In what way is it comparable to Ulysses?
>>7524976
Joint project, not in the slightest, intricacy length and stylistic abnormalities
>>7524976
It's memes, all the way down.
This book is dangerous. I found that I need to use a band-aid as a bookmark.
>>7525893
>This book is dangerous.
I feel as if we need to promote this book to the tumblrinas so we can gain some publicity.
I'd buy it it if the cover weren't so horrible.
