Ryan Somma

	This creator appreciates fanworks, and has promised to be cool about fans making money.

Ryan Somma created The Spiraling Web, and its sequel, Entropy of Imagination. Somma has invited fanworks, and has released creations under CC-BY licenses.

Statements

2008

I don’t have any more Clones stories in me, but I want to read more of them. So I was wondering if anyone else out there would like to take a turn at the speculative helm and tell everyone about your own clone? It could be a short story, a blog post, or just a comment.

I think this is a thought experiment with a lot of merit. ... Now please Write something. It doesn’t even need to be a short story, just some speculation in a blog post will do. The only request I have is that you begin your speculation with, “My clone was…” How you fill out the rest is entirely up to you.

Post it to Oort-Cloud, post it to your blog, post it to the comments section, as a letter to the editor of your local paper, or wherever. Notify me, and I’ll link to them. Or e-mail them to me with a creative commons attribution license (preferably the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license), and I’ll post them to Oort-Cloud crediting you.

You might learn something about yourself. : )

Note: This is for online collaboration only, a speculative exercise. I will only provide links and Oort-Cloud posts. If this idea gets a lot of good responses, I’ll see about contacting everyone to measure interest in collaborating on a vanity-press anthology or something along those lines.

Statement sources

2008—https://ideonexus.com/2008/05/05/an-invitation-to-speculate-your-clone-and-you/

Works

The Spiraling Web (2006)
Clones (2007)
"Extraction" (2008)
"Gods Upon Gods" (2008)
"The Nerd Harvest" (2008)
"Wage-Slave Avatar" (2008)
"A Moment of Uninspiring Clarity" (2008)
"The Prototype Sanctuary" (2008)
"The Peacock's Tail" (2009)
"Dreams of Conceptua" (2009)
"Buying Out" (2009)
"Cartesian Creation" (2009)
Entropy of Imagination (2010)
Detail of a Life (2011)
Shah Mat (screenplay) (2012)
"Singularity's Detritus" (2014)
"The Code" (2014)