This novel is the creation of several members of the Aikido-L, an e-mail forum dedicated mainly to the discussion of Aikido. Individual chapters have been written by different people, each of them potentially going in a different direction with the novel. Although it is best to read them in order, you don't necessarily need to do so!
Wouldn't you like to be involved? Wouldn't you just relish the
semi-immortality of being an author of the Aikido-L chain E-mail bad novel?
It's easy-- just send an email to Elizabeth
Shipp <Elizabeth.SHIPP@sophia.rhone-poulenc.com> and tell me you want
to play too!
The novel is currently in the capable hands of several authors, and production
will resume after the First Annual Aikido-L Seminar and Beer Bash, at the end
of May. Until then, enjoy!