Shadow Unit: Bear, Bull, Shetterly, Monette, and Downum

Shadow Unit is a collaborative online serial with extras, created by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Amanda Downum--all of them exceedingly well known award-winning SF authors.

Here's the concept:

Emma Bull said:

. . . A show no one had ever seen. It would share DNA with Criminal Minds, with The X-Files and Millennium, with Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the old paramedic show Emergency, with The Avengers and a British paranormal series I barely remember called The Champions and a short-lived U.S. series called The Sixth Sense.

The show I was imagining had never aired. But why couldn't I write episodes for it? Why couldn't I write fan fiction for a show that didn't exist?

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(Taken from here).

They're now in their second season of episodes, and in addition to the content by the writers, there's fan fiction, and livejournals and a wiki and a discussion board.

I'm a cynic about writing, and a snob, and picky. I'm particularly so in terms of online writing, but this is some really good stuff, and it's enormously fun.

Anyone else reading?

Shweta said:

I keep meaning to, but am a bit daunted by how much there is to catch up on...

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Don't be. It's not going to get stale, and it's very much something you can dip and out of.

It's also available in lots of e-book forms, thanks to Arachne Jericho.

I checked Shadow Unit out when it first came out, and just didn't really like it.

I think partly it has a slow start; the second episode of the first season got me hooked though.

Williebee said:

Thanks to the discussion on hyperfiction I found my way to Shadow Unit. I'm almost to the end of the first season. Fun stuff, and a nice ride.

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Do look around, and check out the character's LiveJournals.