Pieces

by Nobilis Reed (Compiler)

Joan's world has literally fallen apart. She lives in one tiny piece of the shattered universe, bounded on all sides by shimmering veils. When the creator god, calling himself "Cassius", stumbles into the cathedral where she lives, she is drawn into an adventure of cosmic proportions.

The story is told through the cracked lens of seven experienced podcast authors. Nobilis, Christiana Ellis, Chris Lester, Graydancer, Paul S. Jenkins, Philippa Ballantine, Brandon Crose and John Tanzer take turns, chapter by chapter writing and reading episodes of the story.

Podiobook

First published December 8, 2008

About the author

Nobilis has been writing smut for years, but recently decided to see whether anyone else wanted to read it. To his surprise, people like it, so he keeps writing more. In between that and his day job, he does the father thing and steps over the cats.

Reviews

[Darrell · Rating 3 out of 5]

As punishment for creating such a crappy universe, God is forced to live in the world he created. He teams up with a couple humans and gets help from some of his angels to fight against a rival god in a battle that spans several parallel universes.

Each chapter is told by a different author, which works surprisingly well at the beginning. Somewhere towards the middle however, this story starts to break down. It begins to feel more disjointed and many of the authors resort to just writing action scenes. Still worth listening to though.

[Bob · Rating 3 out of 5]

Likes: Surprisingly coherent for a multi-author collaboration, building and re-building a vast new mythology. The shifts in style and direction with each new chapter reinforce the theme of fragmented reality, which nonetheless provide a unified parable on the relationship between science and power.

Dislikes: The freedom given each author allows what begins as a surreal metaphor to spiral into an increasingly literal and unrelatable fantasy adventure.

[Nobilis Reed · Rating 3 out of 5]

Creating this book was an educational experience for me. Not only did I get to hear a bunch of creative people take tangents and make them into a story, I had the challenge of finding an end for it all.

I am not in a position to state whether the book is GOOD, but I definitely found it valuable.

[DDog · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an interesting experiment. I had already heard the writing and voices of most of the other authors Nobilis invited to share his story space, and listening to the world they created together was instructive. The story was exciting and the characters intriguing.