Hey folks,
Can someone recommend a series of interconnected #ShortStories in #fantasy or #sciencefiction genres?
I am trying to write some and would like to check how other authors have handled worldbuilding and plot threads spanning more than one story.
Quite keen on learning more about #searialisation and #episodic #storytelling.
Please boost for reach... I am sure someone here knows some gems.
@AndreShouldBeWriting Have you read much of the SCP Wiki? I found that following some of the hubs for the "groups of interest" and following links from different stories to different SCPs has been fun. There's vague allusions to other groups doings and to the SCP entries themselves.
@cblgh @AndreShouldBeWriting OMG yes strong +1 for the "There is No Anti-Memetics Division". It's very much written like a bunch of short stories that tie into a larger one. Also Ra by qntm is v good. Also also Fine Structure was my first read by that author and I loved it. https://qntm.gumroad.com/l/ELFop
Also +1 to the Hainish Cycle stuff!
@AndreShouldBeWriting @cblgh Yeah the qntm books might be up your alley then.
@AndreShouldBeWriting @mauve also a lot of old classics were typically serialized in newspapers before being compiled, i find a lot of those old serialized stories are really my kind of thing :>
dope listing over on wikipedia (just looked this up!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature)
@cblgh @AndreShouldBeWriting @mauve the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West was also originally serialised
@mauve SCP is the best internet discovery I made during lockdown... it is bloody brilliant.
@mauve @AndreShouldBeWriting in that specific line of thought, i can really recommend the scp-based storyline that author qntm (sam hughs) authored in: There is No Anti-Memetics Division
for interconnected shorts, i really like Ursula's Hainish cycle short stories. there are quite vague threads between them at times, other times they are more visible :) a particular shout out to Five Ways To Forgiveness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Ways_to_Forgiveness