A dieselpunk novel with Spanish-created robot hobos in a balcanized America at the beginning of the XX century.
For the time being, mainly related to typos:
After America is defeated by a technologically superior Cuba and Spain, Florida becomes an independent multiracial socialist state which is inmediately at war with the (now diminished) America.
An American Pinkerton agent is sent into that state to recover a mechanical man that has been seen in a circus doing gigs from Pensacola to St. Pitersburg entertaining the masses.
He succeeds, but going back to Washington is not easy. He becomes a railway hobo, accompanied with a hobo cyborg - the hoborg of the title.
After four paragraphs, you might have already realized English is not my main language. Sending me corrections is not the only way you can help
- You can just follow @hoborg_novel on Twitter and interact with it.
- Get a GitHub account.
- Watch, star or fork this repo. You don't need to do anything else. for the time being, but it will help me achieve some visibility.
- You can interact with the text and the rest directly from the web: you can comment on text and changes in it (called commits).
- You can also request changes on the text using issues. If you find an error of any kind, just raise an issue and I'll fix it (or try to).
- Create your own version: once forked, you can use git (check out this manual http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Git_for_dummies ) to branch and evolve the story in whicheer way you want.
- You can keep it (hey, it's free as in free speech) or, if you think it's a worthwhile addition to Hoborg, do a Pull Request.
- Check out the TODO list in case you find something that you could do yourself.
When the novel is roughly finished (that is, it's got an ending, it will actually never be finished since it might evolve in time) I intend to publish it in Amazon.com. Since all your contributions will be here, in the repo, they are obviously acknowledged, but I'll acknowledge it also in the prologue itself and, if I earn enough to be able to physically print it and mail it, will mail you a copy. That's quite unlikely to happen, however, so I'll make a promise I can keep: to follow you in Twitter.
Just go to the novel.
Read the installation instructions to get your very own novel going in Github.
You already know the text directory, which contains the novel text itself as well as scraps we might need for later. resources contains HTML templates, images and other non-text stuff. apps includes conversion scripts and other mainly Perl scripts I use for managing this.
If it is some issue related to the novel, use the GitHub issues, any other business, just email me.