The Exquisite Corpuscle -- a game of telephone played by 22 sf writers and artists

Frank Wu sez, "Jay Lake and I have edited an anthology called "The Exquisite Corpuscle." It's not just a random assortment of stories - it's a literary version of the game "Telephone." An experiment in creative groupthink. I started out doing a painting, which I handed off to Gary Shockley (who's had a number of stories in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"). Gary wrote a story inspired by the painting, and then handed the story off to Tim Pratt (a Hugo Award winner), who wrote a poem. And so on. So we established three separate chains of 7 people each, and then Jay Lake wrote a story to unite all the chains of thought together, and Matt Taggart did an endcap painting. All in all, we had 22 separate people involved in this - Kenneth Brady, Alan DeNiro, Richard Doyle, Michaela Eaves, M.C.A. Hogarth , Michael J. Jasper, Jay Lake, Aurora Lemieux, Kristin Livdahl, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Tim Pratt, Bruce Holland Rogers, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Nigel Sade, Maia Sanders, Heather Shaw, Diana Sherman, Gary W. Shockley, Christina Sng, Matt Taggart, Greg van Eekhout, Frank Wu. Because of the sequential nature of the project, it took over three years to complete. After this long birthing process, it's been published by Fairwood Press."

The Exquisite Corpuscle publisher's page, The Exquisite Corpuscle on Amazon (Thanks, Frank!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Talia

Read this as Exquisite Corpsicle at first. Mmm, corpsicle.

Sounds interesting. Will give it a look.
Ian Holmes

Here’s a phylogenetic version of the game “Telephone” :

http://biowiki.org/BrokenTelephoneTree
Tenn

Wow. Hey there, Talia. Long time no speak.

Mmm. Now -this- is a book I’d buy in physical format.
thequickbrownfox

I think it refers to the “Exquisite corpse”, which was a collaborative writing/drawing project of the Surrealist artists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse