Blind Atlas (series)
Blind Atlas was a website dedicated to the "Invisible Cities" collaborative writing project which began on Livejournal in 2006. It was edited by Philip Purser-Hallard, Deirdre Ruane, Andrew Chapman, and Simon Bucher-Jones.
Three of Bucher-Jones' entries – The City of the Black Moon [+]Loading...["The City of the Black Moon (short story)"], Medicia [+]Loading...["Medicia (short story)"], and Kasting [+]Loading...["Kasting (short story)"] – used concepts from his stories in the Faction Paradox series.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
BlindAtlas.com is a place to explore imaginary villages, cities, libraries, worlds and universes without leaving the discomfort of your workstation.
Stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
Title | Author | Link |
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Al Gebra | juggzy | |
Aaaa | Simon Bucher-Jones | [1] |
Ambulatia | vigornian | [2] |
Archton | Phil Storry | [3] |
Batán City | [4] | |
The City of the Black Moon | Simon Bucher-Jones | [5] |
Boulevardville | Dancefloor Landmine | [6] |
Brittlemasque | Simon Bucher-Jones | [7] |
Canvas | the_sybil | [8] |
Cirecumcester | Simon Bucher-Jones | [9] |
Cotheca | John Toon | [10] |
Dukuria | juggzy | |
Eeee | Simon Bucher-Jones | [11] |
Enclave | Dr Cosmos | [12] |
The Falling City | Paul Bellora | [13] |
Flatsville | jackfirecat | [14] |
Germantium | [15] | |
Glissade | brighty | [16] |
Gossamer | allusive | [17] |
Hardup | jackfirecat | [18] |
Iiii | Simon Bucher-Jones | [19] |
The City of the Illusion of Oblivion | [20] | |
The Nine Cities of the Immortals | [21] | |
Injini | juggzy | |
Kasting | Simon Bucher-Jones | [22] |
Lachrymantine | jackfirecat | [23] |
The City of Landfill | Simon Bucher-Jones | [24] |
The Library of Heaven | [25] | |
Mapenzia | juggzy | |
Medicia | Simon Bucher-Jones | [26] |
Memoria | juggzy | |
Morningtide | spurious-fellow | [27] |
Muango | John Toon | [28] |
Neath | Philip Purser-Hallard | [29] |
Obituaria | Simon Bucher-Jones | [30] |
Ok | verlaine | [31] |
The City of Oooo | Simon Bucher-Jones | [32] |
The Island of Parallelica | [33] | |
Pennyville | juggzy | |
Polopolis | hatmandu | [34] |
The Porpoise Empire | Simon Bucher-Jones | [35] |
Ruban | juggzy | |
Scribonia | Philip Purser-Hallard | [36] |
Shamadu | Simon Bucher-Jones | [37] |
The City of Shrouds and Mothballs | [38] | |
St Ockwell & Stanger | thecesspit | [39] |
Spindlemarch | bluedevi | [1] |
The City of Time | juggzy | [40] |
The Place of the Two Absent Monkeys | Simon Bucher-Jones | [41] |
Uuuu | [42] | |
Ukhiana | juggzy | [43] |
Urbs Ubiquis | John Toon | [44] |
Urville | Gilles Trehin | [45] |
Velocester | Kent | [46] |
Wessex Prime | Ralph Lovegrove | [47] |
The City of the Year 4 Million | Simon Bucher-Jones | [48] |
Yitc | [49] | |
Zappalevel | [50] |
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- In January 2006, Livejournal users Juggzy and Jackfirecat posted several short fiction pieces describing imaginary locations. On 9 March 2006, user Bluedevi labelled these "Invisible Cities",[1] which became a meme as other users created their own "Invisible Cities". The Blind Atlas website was created later that month to collect and host these pieces.
- In 2015, Bucher-Jones released two sets of eight tourism-themed "drabbles from the City of the Saved" in the "Blind Atlas Cities" tag on his blog, with permission from the City's creator and owner, Philip Purser-Hallard.[2][3] However, these were not indexed on BlindAtlas.com, as the domain had been expired since 2011.
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Gazetteer of Invisible Cities on BlindAtlas.com via the Wayback Machine
- Blind Atlas Cities tag on Simon Bucher-Jones's pantechnicon extravaganza