''Coming Soon!!!'' is a novel by the American writer

John Barth John Simmons Barth (; May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American writer best known for his postmodern and metafictional fiction. His most highly regarded and influential works were published in the 1960s, and include '' The Sot-Weed Facto ...

, published in 2001. The competing protagonists of the

metafiction Metafiction is a form of fiction that emphasizes its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work. Metafiction is self-conscious about language, literary form, and story ...

al work are the Novelist Emeritus, who is a recently retired novelist from

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

, and the Novelist Aspirant, Johns Hopkins Johnson. The Novelist Emeritus plans to reorchestrate his first novel, ''

The Floating Opera ''The Floating Opera'' is a novel by American writer John Barth, first published in 1956 and significantly revised in 1967. Barth's first published work, the existentialist and nihilist story is a first-person account of a day when protagonist ...

'', as ''The Original Floating Opera II'', and the Novelist Aspirant challenges him by attempting to reinvent that novel himself in

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Works cited

* * 2001 American novels Novels by John Barth Novels set in Maryland Houghton Mifflin books Metafictional novels {{2000s-novel-stub