Talk:Nanofiction
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However, nothing on the page is true.
Nanofiction was defined over a year before the publication of Nobilis, by Steve Moss, editor of the book The World's Shortest Stories. It has very specific rules, and has been promoted within the game world by Andrew Looney of Looney Labs, with his use of nanofiction in his game Chrononauts, and his game Nanofictionary.
- Andrew Looney's page: http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Nanofiction.html
- Nobilis first ed, 1999: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0967318017/sr=8-2/qid=1148085507/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-6691564-2403144?%5Fencoding=UTF8
- World's Shortest Stories, Feb 1998: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0762403004/qid=1148085589/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-6691564-2403144?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
Bergstrom calls it nanofiction now, but did not coin the term, and the term was used elsewhere on the net before someone on the Nobilis list used it to refer to the small snippets of text.
I post this mostly to give notice that I would like to completely rewrite the page, unless someone can give me better citations of proof that Bergstrom created it and coined the term.--Thespian 00:49, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
The articles which link here (OK, so there aren't many) seem to imply the "55-word fiction" definition rather than the "fictional excerpt" definition (not that certain examples couldn't be both). - Logotu 21:23, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion edit
This page fails to meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines, particularly WP:NEO. It's unsourced and non-notable. 64.236.80.62 (talk) 16:47, 10 April 2008 (UTC)