It has been brought to my attention that – beyond the grab of google – the story Salustrade has led to a form of religion or cult in certain sections of the world … now growing. I have checked and I am sure that this is the first time the effect of this story has been mentioned on the internet. I take full responsibility as I wrote Salustrade. It was mentioned to me today inadvertently by one of the so-called Salustraders – also known, apparently by subterfuge, as Overspacers – during a Nemonymous book transaction with me.
I can’t expect anyone to believe this without further evidence (currently being sought). But, meanwhile, I can easily imagine the nature of something like ‘Salustrade’ evolving such a following. From memory, it was something that seemed to write itself back in the early 1990s. And it was published in a mass market book in 1994.
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This makes me wonder – while I try to find out more regarding above – whether a religion can be formed from a religion based solely on its faith in its own ability to keep itself immune from google hits.
Heard mention of a place or building somewhere called The Lake Minster and a book called the Book of Alternities, yesterday, by the way, but nothing clearer than that so far.
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I forgot to mention above – it seems – that SALUSTRADE was reprinted in Weirdmonger (Prime Books 2003) – now out of print and scarce.
I also notice – by checking Google today (3 July 2011) – that a number of people have now taken on ‘Salustrade’ as an on-line name for discussion forums, photographs etc.
Cross-referenced here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/blacker-against-the-deep-dark-alexander-zelenyj/?fbclid=IwAR0l7WKuwd4aOIerKVArF5XCyu8qX1J5zlnHSzF9wV5wJi7FuUq46ShAQWw