No progress on “And Blow Them at the Moon,” but I’ve finished off “Comparison of Efficacy Rates for Seven Antipathetics as Employed Against Lycanthropes,” which is competing with “Letter Found in a Chest Belonging to the Marquis de Montseraille Following the Death of That Worthy Individual” for the achievement of being my most ridiculous title yet.
Yeah, I just wrote a fake academic paper. As a short story.
I blame Patricia Briggs’ husband.
I … cannot wait to read this! In fact, I wish I could find it friends and put it in an anthology posing as a fake academic collection ….
(That, or that you would submit it to one of the less scrupulous scientific journals and wait and see how long it too for a brouhaha to start ….)
That would be a fun anthology, I think. Though it might need to be at least a little bit themed, at least to the level of “social sciences” or “natural sciences” or “humanities,” in order to not seem totally schizophrenic.
Heehee!
I think it sounds rather…interesting ;o)
I have a standing dare based on a story title given to me by a friend that boils down to a half-joking, “If you write it, I will cite it.” The original potential citationperson has since graduated, so no hope of slipping it into his dissertation, but I still have to write it. “Land Use Changes in Communist Iowa”. Who can resist?
And I would totally buy an anthology of pseudoacademic fiction.
You totally should write it.
