Published edition, differing in text from the first edition. From www.astralcodexten.com/p/unsong-available-in-paperback :
Seven years ago, I wrote an online serial novel, Unsong, about alternate history American kabbalists. You can read the online version here.
The online version isn’t going anywhere, but lots of people asked for a hard copy. I tried to get the book formally published, but various things went wrong and I procrastinated. Commenter Pycea finally saved me from myself and helped get it published on Amazon (thank you!) You can now buy the book here, for $19.99.
I think the published version is an improvement over the original. I rewrote three or four chapters I wasn’t satisfied with, and changed a few character names to be more kabbalistically appropriate. The timeline and history have been rectified, and there are more details on the 2000 - 2015 period and how UNSONG was founded. I gave the political situation …
Published edition, differing in text from the first edition. From www.astralcodexten.com/p/unsong-available-in-paperback :
Seven years ago, I wrote an online serial novel, Unsong, about alternate history American kabbalists. You can read the online version here.
The online version isn’t going anywhere, but lots of people asked for a hard copy. I tried to get the book formally published, but various things went wrong and I procrastinated. Commenter Pycea finally saved me from myself and helped get it published on Amazon (thank you!) You can now buy the book here, for $19.99.
I think the published version is an improvement over the original. I rewrote three or four chapters I wasn’t satisfied with, and changed a few character names to be more kabbalistically appropriate. The timeline and history have been rectified, and there are more details on the 2000 - 2015 period and how UNSONG was founded. I gave the political situation a little more depth (watch for the Archon of Arkansas, the Shogun of Michigan, and the Caliph of California). And the sinister Malia Ngo has been replaced by the equally sinister, but actual-character-development-having, Ash Bentham.
All of the parts that were actually good have been kept.
Thanks to everyone for being patient, and special thanks to Pycea for making this happen.
Genius. 5/5. One of the best sci-fi reads ever. Genius plot, hilarious, superb world building, magnificent meta-ness. Ontologically, I would put it along THHTTG, but also better. It's also very weird, and I don't know if everyone would embrace the weirdness.
This book has just about everything blended together into an amazing and surprising novel that traipses through nearly every genre from historical fiction to humour, fantasy to political satire, and philosophical treatise to adventure-thriller.
This took a long time to read, mostly because it's currently only available as an online text, but any book that can make me laugh at bad jokes, giggle with glee at plot and character developments, and then make me do research and think seriously about deep philosophical ideas is a book worth reading in my opinion.
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