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QUESTION: "The world is full of bad books written by amateurs. But why settle for the merely regrettable?"<br>
 
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Revision as of 13:59, 27 November 2020

A hoax and the author of a hoax. Travis Tea was dreamed up by a number of SF writers to be the author of Atlanta Nights, a jointly written book which attempted to be the worst book ever written. It was then submitted to print-on-demand publisher PublishAmerica, which accepted it with praise.

To get an idea, here's the first question from the Travis Tea FAQ:
QUESTION: "The world is full of bad books written by amateurs. But why settle for the merely regrettable?"
ANSWER: "Atlanta Nights is a bad book written by experts."

The book was published in 2005, tho not by PublishAmerica, which withdrew its acceptance when the hoax was revealed.

Website.



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