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The brainchild of the amazing coffeeem, Shadow Unit is, more or less, the website for a serial drama in internet form. Or possibly it's a fan site for a TV show that doesn't exist.

Over the next couple of months, the site will be updated on a weekly or biweekly basis with new information, vignettes, character sketches, character bios, a community message board, and other exciting things.

And starting in mid-February, there will be a series of novellas and novellettes, and one complete novel. Approximately one story every two weeks for sixteen weeks (though we are still tweaking the schedule), comprising the first season (of hopefully many) of a television show that doesn't exist.

Some of the content will be free. Some will be by subscription. (Subscriptions will be extremely reasonable.) There will be DVD extras, deleted scenes, background information, character-based digressions, and I dunno what all else.

The staff writers (as of today) are Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Sarah Monette, and myself. The Brilliant Web Ghoul and Fabulous Artist is Amanda Downum. The Technical Supergeek is Stephen Shipman.

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How cool is that? A site devoted to a show that never existed. Wonder why no one's ever done that before... (cough)hiatus(cough)
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
I disliked Shetterly's Gospel of the Knife enough to be seriously skeptical of the value of this project.
 

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Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
 
Wow. The mood-setting fiction piece they have on the site's home page is so...so...generic.
 

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Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :
 
I have to say, while I never really enjoyed Shadow Unit, nothing can live up to the greatness that wasn't Hiatus.
 

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Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
 
Hey, with the writers' strike going on, it's a perfect time to revive Hiatus!
 

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