The Tulpa War rages on, and in the ongoing dance of death, no one is safe.
The Olympians of Mars are immortal no more, falling one by one at the blood-soaked hands of the mysterious Reine Rouge. New champions arise on Earth and armies of Preta-haunted machines emerge like living nightmares to meet them.
The fires of revolution burn brightly as old allegiances are torn apart. Some fight for hate and vengeance while trampling over the ruins of the past. Others fight for love and redemption, striving for a future that might yet be.
Megan and Kitsune reunite amid the ashes. The final battle for life itself is about to begin.
Fans of the Gundam franchise, the Pacific Rim films, the Nier: Automata and Zone of the Enders video game serieses, or the Heavy Gear and Lancer RPG settings are cordially invited to the climactic conclusion of the Tulpa Trilogy.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCQD4BZZ
As a personal message to anyone on Hexbear reading this, I have been looking forward to completing this trilogy for years, and without spoiling anything, I promise that there is a satisfying conclusion. No story should go without one.
Here are two links about the previous novels of the trilogy if you’re interested but new to the setting:
https://ulyssestuggy.com/
https://www.tulpatrilogy.com/
I mean I could but I worry that might seem grandiose. What would I do with a megathread? Would I have to do a massive @ roll call about it?
I'd love to answer questions and receive feedback, but I don't know how a megathread would otherwise be received.
If it's anything like the pinned megas you just give a little writeup on the topic (in this case promo copy for your books ig). Then people are free to discuss or just post about random unrelated stuff as is the megathread norm.
You should totally do it so there's precedent if I ever work up the courage to post my writing hereHow do I do it? Do I just look up the giant list of @s and copy-paste them and say "THIS IS A MEGATHREAD" or is there something I'm missing?
If you wanted to do a daily megathread, just let Quimby know in the planning thread. You would just post it at the usual time and make the nerd call comment once it's posted.
I always figured you had to set it up with the site mods, contact them and be like "ey i've got a topic for megathread" but I have no clue to be honest
That was exactly what I suspected to. If it's too easy, someone could make a megathread about all kinds of weird stuff.
Don't, by the way. Looking right at you @Dirt_Owl :stalin-point:
THE TULPA TRILOGY - General UlyssesThread for Month DD, YYYY
Synopsis go here
Copy Content from Here for the footer of the OP. Use the little paper button in the same row as the edit/report buttons to display the markdown formatting for your copy-paste needs. If on mobile you need to switch your browser to desktop mode for it to show up.
Then you write the 1st comment in the thread, usually with something silly at the top. Then you paste in the markdown of everyone's names from Quimby's template, hit send, and then someone will reply "First!"
The nerdcall comment triggers admins to wake up and pin the post. Sometimes it takes a little bit but they get there eventually if you post it between 12am and 4am UTC.
Sounds scary, and it may even be a :silver-legion: or wrecker magnet, but I'll consider it around the time of the official book launch. Thanks for the resources! :order-of-lenin:
It's still scary. First megathread and all. Usually I just say "NO U" in them and lurk and read other people.
Try making one about uh...pizza? Something inconsequential as your first one. Throw a gorbachev joke in there.
I think we'll get (more) "I HATE THE ANTICHRIST I HATE THE ANTICHRIST" style response threads if there's more Gorbin' time.
Congratulations on a work well done :rat-salute:
Generations in the future, Megan ran for her life every day through the decaying vertislums of Halifax, doing menial jobs in order to make payments on her mandatory cybernetic implants.
payments on her mandatory cybernetic implants
:jesus-christ: please don't lathe this into being
Let's just say, as a long-time resident of California living in the shadow of Silicon Valley, I wrote what I knew. A big part of living that kind of precariat life is making payments for things that are necessary to get the work that is necessary to make payments for those things necessary to get the work. :sweat:
The first book of the trilogy, in its original form, started in San Francisco, but then I looked at climate change projections and made some changes. :this-is-fine:
Mad respect. Will check it out when I've got a couple bucks to spend on books.
Thank you! :bloomer:
If it helps, the first two novels have their first five chapters for free at these sites, and I can even send some plot summaries if that helps make sense of the third book. There's a massive plot twist in the second book that needs to be known to make sense of how the third book starts.
https://ulyssestuggy.com/
https://www.tulpatrilogy.com/
Let me know if you want the "Cliff's Notes" write-ups I did of the first two books. Like most stories, I think it's best to read the books themselves than one-page summaries, but I made those anyway in case someone wanted to dive straight into the third book.
Thank you! It took years, and I would have never completed it if I thought too much about how much work went into writing (and editing, and editing, and editing, and editing, and editing...) it all, but that's how all sorts of creative projects are, yours included, I imagine! (It's awesome, comrades reading this! Check out some exploration across new worlds, now without the colonialism! https://hexbear.net/post/176898 )
Holy shit, thanks for the plug :soviet-heart: Glad someone remembers that game!
I actually just started reading something else, but once I'm done with my current book, I'll be sure to check out your trilogy.
Thank you for that. And it's hard to forget a game that scratched an itch I didn't realize I had. It's like hypoallergenic versions of formerly-itchy clothes!
I remember playing your game a bit when you made the post about it, it was pretty fun. I'll have to find wherever I put it in my computer and play it again at some point
So it turned out that my current book wasn't that interesting and I returned it to the library early, meaning I was able to start on yours today.
Read the first chapter of book 1. Already more interesting and better paced than most science fiction I've read. Definitely plan on continuing this one.
Thank you! That means a lot to me. :sicko-wholesome:
Please let me know what you think of the story if you complete it sometime. I'm especially proud of a particular plot twist I set up for the first two books and always enjoy the reactions I get from people that got to the ending of Tulpa War.
Very fancy Gs. The font matched the Mahabharata-with-mecha themes I was going with. :angery:
lmao i was gonna comment "Who need they ulysses tussy ate" but i didnt wanna make you feel weird about it haha
also congrats on the drop :picard-pointing:
Thank you. I've gotten feedback before about the font and I know it's going to continue to get me trolled sometimes :picard-troll: , but I decided it's worth it because I personally love it too much to change it, especially this late in the trilogy. :picard:
Any memes about it are basically free marketing :shrug-outta-hecks:
If I get successful enough someday to have a book signing, it would be terrible to stand up in front of the line and say "that's right, I'm Ulysses TUSSY" and it's exactly like that moment where Bart Simpson said "I didn't do it" one too many times. :walter-breakdown:
Thank you so much for that! :bloomer:
Oh, I better tell you now before it's too late: before I ever had a Hexbear account, I have a character in my story, from the first chapter of the first novel
spoiler
by the name of Virginia Adeline "Awooo" (later taking the callsign "Boop") Wu, that is a major subject of one of the promotional short stories tied to the newsletter promotion on the site and becomes plot relevant again in the third novel
and any apparent relation to your own Hexbear handle is strictly coincidence and a weird one.
Not a weird coincidence! I use Awoo because it's incredibly common, in fact a character's nickname "awoo" is a meme for Momiji Inubashiri. It's sort of opsec lmao, good luck googling for "awoo".
Part of the character's gag is hers is three Os. I may have accidentally handled the "lots of Awoos out there" thing you just told me about. :blob-no-thoughts:
I did that gag with a DnD character once except his name was all CAPS and if you didn't say it the ALL CAPS way he would get very mad. This is funny both in text and in person.
I had players do that with accent marks and even umlauts. Good times. :troll:
Congratulations on finishing! Neat that the first book is set in Halifax, I just got back from there a few days ago. Bought all 3, happy to support and stoked to check 'em out.
Halifax is a beautiful and wonderful city. One of my happiest weekends took place there.
That's why I chose it to begin my trilogy. I imagined that place in much worse shape after another century or so of unmitigated damage to the planet.
I don't want to spoil anything, but I will say that Halifax is revisited. Eventually.
If you like the novels, please leave reviews on Amazon; it helps others find them with the algorithm. :bloomer:
I am glad for the vote of confidence overall, thank you.
usually i’m more into settings where mechs are mass produced war machines
Yes, I designed the setting around the idea of piloted mecha being apparently inefficient and a performance limiter, but with the events of the Preta War that preceded the events of the first novel causing a new deliberate (and necessary) downscaling of technology on Earth, with violations of those restrictions punishable by death. In the later books you'll see that expanded upon too. Also, you'll see more mass-produced and widescale deployment of the war machines you mentioned, with interesting consequences because of the crumbling enforcement (and adherence to) the old edicts of Earth's ruling class.
It wouldn't be a Tulpa War in the second book without a lot more Tulpas, after all! :cyber-lenin: :train-shining: :cyber-lenin: :train-shining: :cyber-lenin: :train-shining: :cyber-lenin: :train-shining: :cyber-lenin: :train-shining: :cyber-lenin: :train-shining: :cyber-lenin: :train-shining:
What kind of extra bullshit do you have to pull for Amazon to print physical copies for you? Because I would buy them lol
Oh, the first two books are available in paper as well right now.
https://www.amazon.com/Tulpa-Uprising-Trilogy-Ulysses-Tuggy/dp/B08DPVZ849/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.amazon.com/Tulpa-War-Trilogy-Ulysses-Tuggy/dp/B09L4XL7W1/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
I just bought one. No idea if that's an opsec violation (does amazon give you info on who buys your stuff?) but either way it wasn't my account so it should still be reasonably distant from my personal info lol
I take some precautions to protect my identity, but I think it's worth the risk to share my work with comrades all the same.
Thank you for reading! If you like the work, I encourage you to leave a review. It helps others find it in the algorithm.
No I mean me buying it, I'm not sure how much of the buyer's info the seller gets.
I just checked on that; buyer information is confidential. If you leave a review, it uses the name you choose, and as long as it isn't your official offline name, that's all that's ever seen.
Gotcha, that's pretty sick. I kind of assumed Amazon would share way too much info.
There's options where you can but I certainly wouldn't. :soypoint-1: :lord-bezos-amused: :soypoint-2:
Amazon does allow for physical copies. I actually have a set of them on my bookshelf next to me right now.
The pre-order is only for the electronic version, but on September 8, paperback versions will be available. I personally prefer reading my books on paper, too.
Would you be willing to remind us when the paperback is available for the third one?
September 8 is the first day I can confirm where the paperback is available through Amazon.
Edit: Oh! Yes, I will definitely post something come September 8 as well.
Thank you!
I'm eager to know what you think of the trilogy's conclusion. As always, reviews on Amazon (yes, I sell the book through Amazon, I know :no-copyright: ) help the visibility of the series and future novel projects to come as well. :bloomer:
Thank you! I hope the story is enjoyable. I promise you the ending is satisfactory. I hate stories that don't have satisfying conclusions.
Just curious is/will the 3rd book be available as paperback like the first 2 books ?
It sure will, after September 8. I intend to get some paperback copies to give to family and offline friends, too. It's sort of an author tradition.
