Null Immortalis
 

http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nul...nymous_ten.htm
Nemonymous Ten Guidelines.

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Point nine of the guidelines states:

The stories will be published, for the first time, with the correct by-line. This is your last chance to be published in the acclaimed, famous, infamous, notorious, thought-provoking NEMONYMOUS as Nemonymous Ten will be the last Nemonymous. Ten Nemonymi seem to represent the optimum number and, after ten years, I hope to concentrate again on my own work now I'm getting older. However, I may publish other works by various authors under the Megazanthus Press imprint.

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The guidelines are now settled:
http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nul...nymous_ten.htm

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Last call for submissions to 'Null Immortalis'.


Deadline 30 April 2010.
http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nul...nymous_ten.htm
I probably don't need any more submissions as I have many great stories already - but you never know.


I've now discovered a possible meaning of 'Null Immortalis' thanks to the 'Back From The Dead' anthology, I'm currently reviewing here:
http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/back_from_the_dead.htm

Man not 'back from the dead' so much as still alive ... not locked by those beach-girders under the pier, but by his own bones. - DFL

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Here is the Table of Contents for the NULL IMMORTALIS anthology book as it grows in real-time!
http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/null_immortalis.htm

This will be the final Nemonymous.

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Looks like a great line-up of writers so far!

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It does! And it seems like at least one member of TLO is in as well :)

"Icarus Above - Joe Pulver"

Congrats!

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I am delighted to be in 'NI'. Stunned, and happy as hell! I'm in a tome w/ Joel Lane -- YIPPEE! !!

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I count at least four TLO members as contributors (so far).

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To say that our online connection at work is SLOW would be a mild understatement. I was lucky enough to catch Joe's name before the page froze. Which happened every 30 seconds ... Sorry guys, feel free to add the other names as well :D

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S. D. Tullis, Joel Lane, and Richard Gavin.

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Tem, too. Delighted to appear with these talents!

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This is an amazing line-up! Yay!

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I sure thought so! I'm over the moon to be w/ these fine authors!

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Excuse my ignorance, but who is SD Tullis here?

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S. D. Tullis employs the username SD Tullis. Call me a wet blanket of secrecy. :p

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Of course, it would have to be that easy, wouldn't it? :D

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The Null Immortalis cover is here hot off the press. http://www.knibbworld.com/campbelldi...part/happy.gif
http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/fir...alis_cover.htm

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How soon will this be available to order?

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Hi thanks for query. I'll post here when it is ready - hopefully by mid-July.

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Wow! Looks great! Congratulations, everyone!

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I spent last-night dozing upon or dreaming about 'seaxes' (or as I call them: 'sea-axes') - three of which, in fact, form the county symbol of Essex, the part of the UK where I live.

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The NULL IMMORTALIS book (the final Nemonymous) is now here in tangible form. If I say so myself, it looks lovely. The official publication date: today 29 June 2010. http://www.knibbworld.com/campbelldi...part/happy.gif

Twenty-six stories by your favourite authors.

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So I take it as long as these Three Seaxes remain buried the Kingdom of Essex will never fall? (sorry couldn't resist)

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To prove it exists:
http://www.knibbworld.com/campbelldi...ges/1/3700.jpg

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Null Immortalis is a Retrocausal Epitaph for Secret Synchronicity.

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I am personally responsible for the change in the cover of the finished 'Null Immortalis' from the original prototype on June 9th HERE. I am confident that the change will be seen to be significant rather than arbitrary.


This is akin to:

The blank story in Nemonymous Two.

The 'baguette' retrocausality of the Large Hadron Collider that seemed to fit in so well with 'Cern Zoo'.

The blank cover of Nemonymous Four (and its Glass Onion).

The actual by-lines being missed off stories.

The unusually residual anonymity and meaning of the acclaimed 'The Vanishing Life and Films of Emmanuel Escobada'. (my italics)
Several other stories in 'Nemonymous' that had things go missing (linguistically and in other senses, both big and small).

The first 'e' in Megazanthus rather than the 'a' that would have better suited the intended hybrid of 'magazine' and 'anthology'.

And, above all, my own wedding to the 'Synchronised Shards of Random Truth & Fiction' (the subtitle of 'Weirdmonger' (Prime 2003)) that equates to NULL IMMORTALIS being a 'Retrocausal Epitaph to Secret Synchronicity' (in all senses of that phrase in overt and covert connection purely with its title and contents as well as with several other aspects of 'Nemonymous' from 2001.)

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And, oh yes, akin to my obsession with the theory of 'The Intentional Fallacy' since 1967. :)

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There's a NULL IMMORTALIS related competition within the seventh comment here:
http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nul...in_context.htm
to win an out of print 'Weirdmonger' (Prime 2003)
des

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Nemonymous wrote:

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My copy of Null Immortalis arrived yesterday, and the line up of writers is quite excellent. I cannot wait to delve into the stories!

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I am very pleased with this the first review of NULL IMMORTALIS:
http://matthewfryer.com/2010/07/23/n...emonymous-ten/

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Null Immortalis edited by D F Lewis

First published by Megazanthus Ŕess, 2010

An anthology of twenty-five stories, edited by D F Lewis, Null Immortalis is the tenth and final Nemonymous. And it has a number of differences to previous volumes. It’s the first volume to show the authors names alongside their stories - so maybe it shouldn’t be labelled Nemonymous at all?

There are more familiar names than usual.

One of the names, S D Tullis, is likely to become better known to readers of this book, as one of the submission guidelines for the anthology was: “The story must include a character named 'S.D. Tullis' or 'Scott Tullis' or 'Mr. Tullis' or 'Tullis'. [S.D. Tullis was the winner of the ''Cern Zoo WIN IMMORTALITY competition].”

Des Lewis has had also said that: “The cover of NULL IMMORTALIS may be based on the images shown at the link immediately above [the photo of a windfarm]. It would be nice if at least one story refers to it.”

On to the stories.

(I really hope my erratic way of reading and writing about lots of different books over a worryingly long period doesn’t give too many writers breakdowns waiting. At the moment I seem to be reading more books than usual at the same time. Hopefully there are lots of other more sensible people reading and writing more briefly and quickly.)

Turn Again by William Miekle: Although the novelty of the wind farm being constructed offshore has lessened, Patty still likes to visit the promenade and study the forest of windmills. Here she makes a new friend in Mr Tullis, who produces a strange notebook and admits that he hasn’t been happy for a long time.

‘“When I began, I truly thought that this was what I wanted. But I have seen everything I love wither and die. No matter how many platitudes I use to console myself, no matter how cosmic the thought that my molecules might see the death of the sun, I am lonely. I have been lonely so long.

“But seeing those circles being drawn in the sky gives me hope.”’


A short and enjoyable tale of myth and alchemical rebirth.

A Giant in the House by Daniel Pearlman: Adversity can sometimes promote growth and strength, but this child’s-eye view of a father becoming embittered and frustrated as he fails to come to terms with his life, tells of a descent into failure, abuse, and a horror beyond death.

Apotheosis by D P Watt: The narrator, an aspiring writer, receives a letter from the astonishingly prolific author S D Tullis, inviting him to ‘unite in anonymity’ by contributing a fragment of his own writing to become part of a literary experiment.

‘“Each work sent to me will appear as a perfect fragment. However, it will exist in relation to the other works submitted and we will assemble a true collective mind; emerging from the isolation of your thoughts the work will engender new connections and dimensions impossible for the individual writer to accomplish alone.”’


Suspecting a hoax but still curious, the narrator scribbles a few lines of prose and replies to the letter. A year later S D Tullis’s collection Drums of the Masses is published, and he searches through its three hundred pages for his own few lines. And so begins a bizarre obsession as book after book by Tullis is printed and the writer seeks his own small contribution, while Tullis himself remains an enigmatic and elusive cipher.

Almost as much of a puzzle as D F Lewis, perhaps?

The Return by S D Tullis: We are never told where the girl had gone, only that she’s been missing for a very long time – two years – but it’s soon apparent that although her body has returned, she’s left a significant part of herself behind in that fell place. She shows no emotion, doesn’t speak; physically there is no evidence of abuse. She is not a vegetable. In fact there are more things she is not than things she might now be. It’s her mother who hears her moving on the other side of the bedroom door one night, and senses that the reality is stranger than anyone has imagined.

A very chilly piece of science fiction grue.

Lucien’s Menagerie by David M Fitzpatrick: When Lucien Kane dies Julia Trafton is astonished to learn that he has left her her old family home. Julia had divorced Kane because of his appalling mental cruelty. A psychopath who used his great wealth to manipulate and ride roughshod over all around him, Kane was without redeeming features and had spent his life travelling the globe to find and kill exotic beasts.

She soon learns that Kane did not have any change of heart before he died. When she discusses the details of the bequest with the solicitor she learns that the house will become hers only on one condition. And you’ve already guessed what that has to be.

When she enters the house with her husband Jake, ready to spend the obligatory night within it, she knows that there are fifty-two items scattered through the rooms which must remain undisturbed for the whole of that night before the house becomes truly hers.

The items are things that are so disturbing, so deeply entangled with memories of her ghastly past life married to a sadistic madman, that their presence is almost enough to drive her to breakdown. Or will they drive her present husband Jake to a coronary? Kane had amassed a great many trophies of his hunting life, and had employed a world-famous taxidermist to preserve them. Now the house swarms with the terrifying shapes. And only a madman could be responsible for some of them.

Grim and very nasty gothic. Loved it.

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Thanks, for the start of that real-time review, Rog. :)

I have also started one here:
Null Immortalis - a real-time review
as a sort of Director's Commentary on a DVD !

des

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Is this the first time that an editor of a short fiction anthology has reviewed it along the lines of a Director's Commentary on a DVD???

http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nul...ime_review.htm

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http://www.countgore.com/gore/tomb.htm

A review including: "NULL IMMORTALIS: NEMONYMOUS TEN is a triumph of creativity and craft that resonates in the reader’s mind long after the final page has been turned. Bravo!"

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Again, Congrats to Des and all the writers! !!

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http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o...lzzz23-1-2.jpg

Nobody has yet won this free prize competition:

There is, in the 'Null Immortalis' book, (1) the word 'thinki' as a foreshortening of 'thinking' - and, elsewhere in the book, (2) some consecutive words that form an anagram of 'Null Immortalis'.
The person -- who first posts here, as a comment, NOT with the answers but that he or she will be privately writing to me at dflewis48@hotmail.com with the correct answers of where exactly those items (1) and (2) are located in the book -- will win a specifically signed copy of my book 'Weirdmonger' (Prime 2003) that is now rare and out of print.

Anyone is eligible. The authors in 'Null Immortalis' are also eligible (except any author implicit in the material on which the question is based!).

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Null Immortalis (along with Cern Zoo) arrived in my mailbox yesterday. I can't say with certainty, but I may be the only person who has acquired a complete run of the Nemonymous anthologies for free from the editor.

des, your generosity is without peer. Thank you! :cool:, :cool:, and :cool:!!!