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Tales of Lyniezia was the title given by Richard Prediger, alias “the Lyniezian”, to a series of prose stories he created. Despite the title, not all of them concerned themselves with the titular world of Lyniezia.
The official site description read:
| This is a site to showcase some of the fictional outpourings and attempts of Richard Prediger, aka “thelyniezian”. The name of the site reflects the imaginary country the author originally made up as a boy, and some of the stories to be published here use the country (or some version of it) as a setting, though by no means all. Really, the author wanted a snappy sounding name and it came to pass. The fictional Lyniezia itself is a non-existent island nation in a world otherwise identical to our own, with its own idiosyncratic culture and traditions (and the vague beginnings of a language) which will be fleshed out bit by bit as the stories develop. It is to some extent a reflection of the author’s past and present ideals and, perhaps, wishful thinking, which hopefully will be elaborated upon here as the blog develops. There are different ‘alternate reality’ versions of the country too, including a more mundane version and a somewhat more wacky one which invades and annexes countries on alternate-reality Earths with oppressive regimes in the name of liberating them from tyranny. (There is a little wish fulfillment and more than a little satire indended there). Whilst many of the stories will be of a vaguely alternate world/science fantasy type bent, there will be occasions where they are a little more ‘slice of life’ type works (if that is the correct expression) and focus on more mundane matters of characters’ lives, for example the (as yet incomplete) A Not-So-Brief Encounter. Another common thread to the stories you will find here is the tales relating to open source character Jenny Everywhere, a goggles-and-scarf wearing dimension-hopping adventurer who exists in all possible realities at once. This character is not of the author’s creation but being an open source character, the author decided he might have a bit of fun with her. You will tend to find there is some humour sprinkled throughout, indeed a few stories which are nothing more than silly parodies, and some more serious attempts. |
| —Richard Prediger |