Novel 3 "The Airplane"

The Airplane is a 84207-word full-length novel, published here over 48 colourful pages.

Signed and numbered by the author/artist.

The work is staple bound and A4 sized (210/297mm or 8.3 x 11.7 inches) with card covers depicting the "Novel Artworks" that evolved from this adventure into literature.

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Novel Artworks

The 48 individual pages were created from the original collages that make up the "Novel Artworks" series of triptych pieces. This means the text runs over and in between the different motifs. In this case, clockfaces. To fit the words in, the text is arranged into 3 columns per page and all indentation for paragraphs etc., are removed. Running underneath and in between the main text is a 5893-word abridged version.

This is a unique but accessible way to consume text. As with the other two novels, the  the motifs were hand-cut from printed coloured papers and arranged by Steve during several months of painstaking application (!).

History

The Airplane was begun by Steve in 2016. Various drafts were written in longhand before being typed into this, 2018 version.

Blurb

This is a comedy coming-of-age sci-fi (ish) ghost story terror plot family saga thing. There are anti-hero alcoholics, anxiety-riddled heroines and an old cop just trying to save the world. What could possibly go wrong?

Themes

"Novel Artworks" are largely about challenging the notion of linear time. Showing everything "all at once". In an eternal singular moment. All three of Steve's novels explore this idea in their own way. In The Airplane, there are "time windows" where past and future events can be witnessed and in the case of future events, potentially altered.