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1 | 1 | hoborg |
2 | 2 | ====== |
3 | 3 |
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4 | | -A dieselpunk novel with Spanish-created robot hobos in a balcanized America at the beginning of the XX century |
| 4 | +A dieselpunk novel with Spanish-created robot hobos in a balcanized |
| 5 | +America at the beginning of the XX century |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +Plot outline |
| 8 | +--------------- |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +After America is defeated by a technologically superior Cuba and |
| 11 | +Spain, Florida becomes an independent multiracial socialist state |
| 12 | +which is inmediately at war with the (now diminished) America. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +An American Pinkerton agent is sent into that state to recover a |
| 15 | +*mechanical man* that has been seen in a circus doing gigs from |
| 16 | +Pensacola to St. Pitersburg entertaining the masses. |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +He succeeds, but going back to Washington is not easy. He becomes a |
| 19 | +raiway hobo, accompanied with a hobo cyborg - the hoborg of the title. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +How you can help |
| 22 | +----------------------- |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +After 4 paragraphs, you might have already realized English is not my |
| 25 | +main language. That's not the only way you can help |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +* Get a GitHub account http://github.com |
| 28 | +* Watch, star or fork this repo. You don't need to do anything else |
| 29 | + for the time being, but it will help me achieve some visibility. |
| 30 | +* You can interact with the text and the rest directly from the web: |
| 31 | + you can comment on text and changes in it (called *commits*) |
| 32 | +* You can also request changes on the text using *issues*. If you find |
| 33 | + an error of any kind, just raise an issue and I'll fix it (or try |
| 34 | + to). |
| 35 | +* Create your own version: once forked, you can use git (check out |
| 36 | + this manual http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Git_for_dummies ) to |
| 37 | + branch and evolve the story in whicheer way you want |
| 38 | +* You can keep it (hey, it's free as in free speech) or, if you think |
| 39 | + it's a worthwhile addition to Hoborg, do a Pull Request. |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +Full disclosure |
| 42 | +------------------ |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +When the novel is roughly finished (that is, it's got an ending, it |
| 45 | +will actually never be finished since it might evolve in time) I |
| 46 | +intend to publish it in Amazon.com. Since all your contributions will |
| 47 | +be here, in the repo, they are obviously acknowledged, but I'll |
| 48 | +acknowledge it also in the prologue itself and, if I earn enough to be |
| 49 | +able to physically print it and mail it, will mail you a copy. That's |
| 50 | +quite unlikely to happen, however, so I'll make a promise I can keep: |
| 51 | +to follow you in Twitter. |
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