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CERN ZOO (June 2009)

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This will be a continually moving page reporting the progress of the anthology - available 12 June 2009.

Where our world will go when it needs helping to die. 

 Authors (in random order): Rosalind Barden - Gary McMahon - Amy Kinmond - Tim Nickels - Bob Lock - Lesley Corina - Jacqueline Seewald - Dominy Clements - A.J. Kirby - Brendan Connell - Daniel Ausema - Gary Fry - Mick Finlay - Robert Neilson - Steve Duffy - Geoff Lowe - Stephen Bacon - Rod Hamon - Lee Hughes - Lyn Michaud - Tony Lovell - A.C. Wise - Roy Gray - Travis K. Weltman

TIME-LINE

5 April 2009: Contracts were issued for 24 stories. Blogs already (a few hours later) marking this prospect: http://www.garymcmahon.com/2009/04/captain-nemonymous.html --- http://stephenbacon.co.uk/2009/04/05/lightning-does-strike-twice-and-another-acceptance/ --- http://www.acwise.net/?p=255

6 April 09: More author blogs: http://danielausema.blogspot.com/2009/04/nemonymous-9-cern-zoo-im-excited-to.html --- http://bob-lock.blogspot.com/2009/04/were-all-going-to-zoozoo-were-all-going.html

8 April 09: Another author blog: http://bobn-translation.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-was-at-irish-sf-convention-recently.html

12 April 09: All 24 proofs have now been agreed by authors. Polar Bear mauls woman at Zoo: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/04/12/2009-04-12_unbelievable_photo_polar_bear_mauls_woman_who_.html

30 April 2009: NEMONYMAL: Tim Nickels (Zencore and forthcoming Cern Zoo author): http://web.mac.com/paperback.studio/iWeb/Mizzlesoft/Nemonymal.html

5 May 2009: HERE is the 'Cern Zoo' cover!! Book has gone to the Printer! :)

21 May 09: Another author blog: http://leehugheswrites.blogspot.com/2009/05/thrillers-killers-n-chillers.html

12 June 09: BOOK PUBLISHED. Contributors' Copies Posted.

14 June 09: Press Release on SFF Chronicles: http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/50938-nemonymous-9-published.html

15 June 09: http://rosalindbarden.com/index.html and Charles Tan News: http://charles-tan.blogspot.com/2009/06/june-15-2009-links-and-plugs.html

16 June 09: There is a mystery embodied in this blog (http://grimreviews.blogspot.com/2009/06/nemonymous-nine-cern-zoo.html) that is mysterious to the Cern Zoo editor/publisher, too! === Plus the very first comment by a paying reader: http://www.knibbworld.com/campbell-cgi/discus/show.cgi?tpc=1&post=28738#POST28738

19 June 09: Significant event in the history of Nemonymity: http://www.anonthology.com/ A case of Nemonymitation?--- Author blog: http://brendanconnell.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/cern-zoo/

20 June 09: Lee Hughes (Cern Zoo author): http://leehugheswrites.blogspot.com/2009/06/fictionbitch-post-on-anonthology-and.html with more news on ANONthology. And: http://www.acwise.net/?p=296

3 July 09: Anonymous Fame: http://www.acwise.net/?p=301

6 July 09: I have it on good authority that this very zoo is the model for that in 'The Lion's Den': http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090705/tuk-uk-britain-zoo-escape-fa6b408.html

2 July 09: First Review: http://matthewfryer.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/nemonymous-9-cern-zoo/ "Cern Zoo is a banquet. A cornucopia of flavour and texture, of many courses and layers. Just beware of the cockroaches lurking in the salad."

27 July 09: Charles Tan's review: http://charles-tan.blogspot.com/2009/07/bookmagazine-review-nemonymous-cern-zoo.html "...the sheer number of stories, formats, and genres does emulate a form of literary zoo..."

9 August 09: A review by 'the Author of Salmon Widow': http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cern_zoo_review.htm

30 August 09: A review by SF Crowsnest: http://www.sfcrowsnest.com/articles/books/2009/Cern-Zoo-Nemonymous-Nine-14183.php

27 September 09: A review from Steven Pirie: http://stevenpirie.blogspot.com/2009/09/cern-zoo-nemonymous-nine.html "...provides excellent value for money at 265 pages with 24 short stories."

27 September 09: A review from David Hebblethwaite: http://davidhblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/cern-zoo-nemonymous-nine-2009/ "The stories in Cern Zoo are a nicely eclectic bunch; this is true not only of their subject matter, but also of their relationships to the anthology's title."

29 September 09: A review from 'Fright': http://www.fright.com/edge/CernZoo.htm "...its contents are every bit as varied and unexpected as you might expect."

14 October 09: I am pleased to report that what I consider to be a very good review of CERN ZOO has appeared in the latest 'Black Static' (i.e. issue 13) - a print magazine advertised here: www.ttapress.com

16 October 09: The Cern Zoo book post-predicted the Collider's sabotage of itself from the future

2 November 09: A review of 'Cern Zoo' by Nick Jackson

5 November 09: 'Cern Zoo' retrocaused itself?

5 November 09: A review by the Short Review: http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/CernZooAnthology.htm

7 November 09: A bird from the Cern Zoo attacks LHC with bread: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1225830/Hadron-Collider-breaks-thanks-bread-dropped-passing-bird.html

14 November 09: DFL's own New Fanblade Fables linked from here: http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-fanblade-fables.html

23 November 09: CERN starts historic collisions: http://twitter.com/Nemonymity/favorites

25 November 09: Berne's Zoo, Bern park, Switzerland: Bear mauls man: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/berne_zoo.htm - also see the earlier incident at Berlin Zoo. Photo like Cern Zoo cover.  See 'The Lion's Den' in Cern Zoo.

9 December 09: Tigers maul trainer in Hamburg Zoo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8403686.stm

10 December 09: http://weirdmonger.livejournal.com/2009/12/10/ Now the Large Hadron Collider is picking up speed day after day, it is reflected in the sky above Norway. Many others hold this theory. Possibly significant that the cover photograph of CERN ZOO was taken by me in Norway last year.

11 December 09: A disturbing photograph but I can easily imagine this being a denizen of some of the Zoos in 'Cern Zoo' stories: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2009-12/germany-zoo-bears-struck-mystery-baldness

21 January 2010: The Lion's Den fom Cern Zoo chosen for prestigious 'Best of Year's Horror' book.  Other 'Cern Zoo' writers are simultaneously released from their secrecy (if they so wish) prior to my official listing on 12 March 2010. I intend to show such denemonisations below. 

21 January 2010: TURN THE CRANK

22 January 2010: BEING OF SOUND MIND

22 January 2010: THE OZYMANDIAS SITE

25 January 2010: THE RUDE MAN'S MENAGERIE

25 January 2010: CERNE'S ZOO

26 January 2010: THE DEVOURER OF DREAMS

26 January 2010: PEBBLES

28 January 2010: MELLIE'S ZOO

30 January 2010: 'The Virtual Revolution' on BBC2 tonight says World Wide Web was invented in CERN. Seems therefore a good name for the Internet: CERN Zoo?

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EDIT (OCT/NOV 09): Link: HADRON COLLIDER'S OWN SABOTAGE FROM THE FUTURE - VIS-A-VIS 'CERN ZOO' plus bird with beget bread. AND NOW (Nov 25, 2009): BERNE ZOO INCIDENT AND NOW (10 Dec, 2009): NORWAY SPIRAL LIGHT.

This year's `Guess The Author' – and win immortality. Now with a retro-causal DIMENSION. (Edit: Nov 09) 
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Zencore = Cone Zero = Cern(e) Zoo

Brief reference to "A Vist To Cern Zoo" (a talk by S. Wimpenny, 4 Feb 1995): http://www-d0.fnal.gov/~gwatts/ud0/past_speakers.html

Uncovering the Particle Zoo:
http://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/archiv/HST2002/feynman/particlezoo.html

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/People/Theorists-en.html: Cern Zoo: The main specialty of theoretical physicists at CERN is trying to understand "elementary particles", which are the fundamental constituents of the Universe and the agents of the basic forces of Nature, like gravity. As it turns out, our ever-advancing knowledge of these "elementary" little things is also the basis of our understanding of the Universe as a whole! If you made a short visit to CERN’s Theory Division you might think that you are in a zoo. But that is not *entirely* right. True enough, you will find women and men of dozens of nationalities, cultures, languages and what not... some of them may even look like ET. But what these people are doing is what defines our species in its ensemble: asking, and sometimes answering, some of the deepest questions. Thus the zoo is more like a circus of magicians, in which the performers - uncharacteristically - would insist in showing you their cards... and the entrance is free!

How The Techies Tamed The Cyber Zoo: http://www.spacemart.com/reports/How_the_techies_tamed_the_cyber_zoo_999.html

Particle Zoo Plush Toys: http://www.zimbio.com/CERN+Hadron+Collider/articles/21/Particle+Zoo+Plush+Toys

GalaxyZoo Forum: The Cern Rap: http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=271966.0

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Wikipedia: Here