CONE ZERO
CONE ZERO UNDER WAY
Streaming News about Cone Zero
4th JULY 2008: CONE ZERO has arrived. If I say so myself, it truly looks magnificent.
Contributors' copies and first orders have been despatched.
For orders (please see after picture below).
Queries regarding review copies etc:
bfitzworth@yahoo.co.uk
5 July 2008: First impressions of Cone Zero by Kek-W.
21 July 2008: First independent comments on the CONE ZERO book: http://charles-tan.blogspot.com/2008/07/magazineanthology-review-nemonymous.html -- It gives this rating: "Highly recommended and is easily a pioneer of the genre."
23 July 2008: 'CONE ZERO' YOUTUBE: http://www.ligotti.net/showpost.php?p=10904&postcount=51
28 July 2008: CONE ZERO AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION CASH COMPETITION
4 August 2008: Bob Lock's Thoughts on Cone Zero
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GBP: inclusive of UK postage or Surface Mail:
(A) CONE ZERO = £10
(B) ZENCORE = £8
(C) CONE ZERO plus ZENCORE = £16
(D) A, B or C above plus one or more of the previous ‘Nemonymous’ anthologies (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5) will be an additional cost of £3 for each anthology. (£5 per anthology if not part of A, B or C.)
Multiply any total amount above by 1.3 for Air Mail instead of Surface Mail.
UK orders of £18 or more will also receive a free ONLY CONNECT paperback.
Payment by Paypal to DF Lewis at bfitzworth@yahoo.co.uk
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Stories in Cone Zero:
- "The Fathomless World"
- "The Point of Oswald Masters"
- "Cone Zero" (page 23)
- "Cone Zero" (page 33)
- "Cone Zero, Sphere Zero"
- "An Oddly Quiet Street"
- "Always More Than You Know"
- "Cone Zero" (page 129)
- "Going Back For What Got Left Behind"
- "Cone Zero" (page 147)
- "The Cone Zero Ultimatum"
- "Angel Zero"
- "How To Kill An Hour"
- "To Let"
Past Nemonymous anthologies and spoilers for authors' names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemonymous
ZENCORE: Details HERE.
STOP PRESS (7 August 2008): ZENCORE! nominated for British Fantasy Award (Best Anthology in 2007)
Some review quotes regarding Nemonymous (2001-2008): http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/nemonymous_reviews_2001__2008.htm
More visible cones: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cone_zero_search.htm and http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/more_zeroing_in_on_cones_or_conesindisguise.htm and http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cones_from_a_cone_zeroist.htm
General Nemonymous page: www.nemonymous.com
Past covers: http://www.myspace.com/weirdtongue
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On 14 April 2008, I finally contracted 14 stories and 14 different authors for the CONE ZERO book (Nemonymous 8) with about 90,000 words.
I am very excited about the stories with which I have been graced. But disappointed by the inevitable need to reject many other brilliant stories written on this multifaceted theme.
Re the latter, one author with a rejected story wrote to me today (15 April 2008): ...but then to be left with a cold dead cone zero in the hand, the centre melting, the cone soggy at the edges, dripping from the bottom… sigh. Perhaps there should be a cone zero graveyard, ghosts of the ‘almost’ stories hovering in their own pixilated purgatory… nemonymously anonymous forever.
DFL Silly Idea
The Baser Pulps - Nemonymous - Weirdmonger Wheel - Weirdmonger (Prime Book)
There are many worse ways of life than contented failure - Robert Aickman
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Suprematism has extended the apex of the finite visual cone of perspective into infinity. It has broken through the 'blue lampshade of the heavens' [...] has swept away the illusion of three-dimensional space on a plane, replacing it by the ultimate illusion of irrational space with attributes of infinite extensibility in depth and foreground.
- El Lissitsky (1925) 'A. and Pangeometry'
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"The 'wavering Zero' is the generative core of being and slime."
--Iain Hamilton Grant from "Being and Slime: The Mathematics of Protoplasm in Lorenz Oken's 'Physio-Philosophy'"
I notice a review of COLLAPSE Vol IV (Urbanomic 2008) mentions:
"the nemonymous horror of Ligotti’s fiction"
I intend to adapt this page gradually in the shape of the official CONE ZERO. It will be edited and re-decorated as things progress. It's not a static blog entry in that sense, although this paragraph will remain untouched (14 April 2008).
I've suddenly realised why I've been calling the ZENCORE book iCONIC in its
advertising campaign since last year. Almost as surprising as realising
that CONE ZERO is a near anagram of ZENCORE!
Attempts to find the real Cone Zero start at link above.
Last night on the Dr Who episode of 'Silence in the Library', she whispered
his name in his ear.
There were composite cones and pyramids either alone or surmounting
cylinders and cubes or flatter truncated cones and pyramids, and occasional
needle-like spires in curious clusters of five. All of these febrile
structures seemed knit together by tubular bridges.
--H.P. Lovecraft (At The Mountains of Madness)
New Cone Memorial opened today. See above link.
If one reads CZ from beginning to end, you will defeat the Credit Crunch
simply by allowing it to be sucked up into Cone Zero.