The Tea Bowl - A Chatsubo Archive

The sky over the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Credits Stuff about this web archive.
Some Chatsubo Links The newsgroup, archives, home pages belonging to other chatsubo regulars old and new.
Cooperative Fiction "Literary virtual reality in a high-tech low-life hangout", or what the group was created for.
Solo Stories ... And what it has become. Solo stories from the archives, listed by author. The bulk of this archive.
Admin Waffle FAQ, Character and author databases, an unusual charter.
Yo Ratz, More Whiskey Dialogue, debate, feedback and flame wars from the bar.

Credits This is an archive containing stories from the alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo newsgroup.

Most of the material comes from the "Catalina" FTP archive,
put together over the years by Hubert Bartels.

Feedback to joelbenford32@gmail.com, please.

Thanks to:

Tranquility, Ken Stone, God Eater (RIP) and Tony Johnston (RIP) for inspiration

BodyJackal for taunting me into coming out of lurk mode

Severin for chopping the raw data into stories and Hubert Bartels for archiving it in the first place

Special thanks to the legendary Liralen Li, and all the others who started the group.

But First Some Chatsubo Links... {This page was written back when people had personal "home pages" on the WWW, before Facebook et al replaced all that. Almost every link here is long dead, this section is more a historical artifact nowadays. But you can get at least some of the linked content via Wayback Machine and the like.}

The newsgroup.
The Motley Crew. A collection of aliases for Marshall Motley. Fairly old hand who has written a lot of fiction and pissed off everybody. The place wouldn't be the same without him.
The Kitchen. Under the grime is James Christopher Goodwin. You want edge, he's got edge. But only when his site's up.
Cat-Girl Paradise. Anime artwork and cp fiction from Ken Stone, the cat-girl fetishist. Turn on graphics - it's worth it.
Webtrance. Unusual fiction and cool pic's from Schwann.
David Palmer. Might be the only original you could still call a regular. Has been known to display a certain twisted sense of humour. [No site at the mo, but I'm hoping he'll build one again.]
Ken "Wirehead" Wronkiewicz. Slick, these youngsters.
The Monkey Doctor. Recently started a "sensible" section.
Auntie Desu's Art Haus of Shame. Handle with care.
Ghost, who used to be Matrix I think...
Hagdrisil must count as a regular by now.
Bombsite calls his homepage "The Pit". Surely "The Crater"?

And the old timers

Liralen Li The legend herself. Wrote the newsgroup proposal, the charter, the original FAQ and a fair number of the stories...
Laurent Alquier Site closed, but there may be a link to a replacement here one day.
The Ultimate Codex of Twoflowerian Fiction (yes, it's Stephan Gagne).
Hades Nebula. Home to a rather enthusiastic, gung ho sort of individual who put this archive together with me. [Site looking a bit dead lately.]
Intertext, probably the most prestigious online fiction magazine. A fair number of Chatsubo denizens have appeared here.
Jumping on the Breeze SF fannish stuff and fan fiction from old timer Kathryn Andersen (aka Sarai).

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