The Incomparable Lightness of Tweeting*

*With apologies to Milan Kundera, but given the subject matter, it was too hard to resist the title.

Twitter can be a fun place, especially when it comes to Second Life (no, really…). Take last night, when I noticed Mistletoe Ethaniel tweeting to a hashtag entitled “LessAmbitousNovels”  – the idea being to take the name of a novel and turn it into something a little … less ambitious. I couldn’t help but reply with one of my own: The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to Your Local Store. which prompted a rapid exchange between Mistletoe and myself:

Thus was born a few hours of silliness that illustrated the range of talent and humour that is part and parcel of the SL community. Here are a few of my personal favourites by “author”:

• Abel Undercity:
  • An LSL Bridge Too Far
  • For Whom the Lag Rolls
  • Crash
  • My Fair JIRA
• Ahuva Heliosense – The Sun Also Rezzes
• Alex Hayden
  • The Prim of Miss Jean Brodie
  • The Fall of the House of Linden
• Antony Fairport – Rendezvous With Drama
• Bear Silvershade – Where Avatars Fear to Rez
• Cinder Roxley:
  • Stranger in a Strange Sim
  • Old Man and the Blake Sea
  • Something Scripted This Way Comes
  • War and Grief
  • Uncle Tom’s Skybox
  • The Tenant of Ravenglass Hall
• Gypsy Quixote – The Handmaid’s Tail
• Gwendolyn Ann Smith – A Tale of Two Bay Cities
• Miso Susanowa
  • Lord of the Sims
  • For Whom The Tier Tolls
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Sim
• Mistletoe Ethaniel
  • I, Copybot
  • Master and Kajira
  • To Kill a Sion Chicken
• Ossian – The Grid-Wide Hunt For Red October
• Salazar Jack – Prim and Primibility
• Sling Trebuchet
  • Charlotte’s Mesh
  • The Muted American
• Spikeheel Starr
  • The Avatar is a Harsh Mistress
  • Welcome Island of Dr. Moreau

And there are more besides under the hashtag #SLNovels. While I hate pointing to my own contributions (ego, ego!), I hope the following selection raised a smile or two:

• I, Rodvik
• Rosedale Shrugged
• The Catcher in the Cornfield
• The Thirty-Nine Prims
• To Sculpt a Mockingbird
• SL Confidential
• A Passage to Zindra
• A Prim With A View
• Gone With The Windlight (also submitted by Marx Dudek)
• The Scripted Agent
• Do Avatars Dream of Breedable Sheep?

So, does anyone else have ideas for suitable SLNovels?