LordMoogi
04-16-2010, 08:06 PM
I've got a story I'm working on that seems to completely defy genre boundaries. So, I thought I'd ask if this would be the appropriate subforum to write about it on.
First off, we have the setting. The setting is an alternate history where fiction is fact, much like Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics. So, the gods and goddesses of the ancient once walked the earth, all of Shakespeare's plays were Histories (I know of a novel where this idea was also used, anachronisms and all, but I'm not going quite that far), the heroes of the old pulp adventures were all active in the past, magic exists as a sort of underground subculture, and archaeologists have recently begun salvaging from the underwater ruins of Atlantis. Despite this, most of the main cast are completely original characters, albeit ones that are related to existing characters (for example, the protagonist is a descendant of Sherlock Holmes' enemy Professor Moriarty). There are only two borrowed characters in leading roles at the moment- one is my interpretation of what Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes would be like as an adult, and the other is Jenny Everywhere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Everywhere).
Because of this setting, we have elements of alternate history (for example, Josiah Bartlett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Bartlet) served as President of the United States from 1999-2006, and the immortal demon Koshchei the Deathless (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshchei) took control of Russia after the death of Peter the Great and ruled for several decades), fantasy (the aforementioned magic and gods), and science fiction (mad science and aliens are very much a reality in this 'verse). The plot itself has thriller elements to it, as it deals mainly with espionage and conspiracy theories (one line suggests that the events of the conspiracy stories of Dan Brown and other writers were set up with fake evidence by the real conspiracy, to throw off the public).
As far as the writing itself goes, I'll probably write it in a very tongue-in-cheek way, piling on ridiculously cool situations while discussing just how bizarre they actually are. But the story itself isn't exactly a comedy, either- the plot is dead serious. It's just that the characters (who also serve as narrators, since I plan to write this in the form of letters, diary entries, memos, and other documents, rather than outright prose) don't take their situation all that seriously unless they really have to.
So, interstice? If not, what would it qualify as?
First off, we have the setting. The setting is an alternate history where fiction is fact, much like Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics. So, the gods and goddesses of the ancient once walked the earth, all of Shakespeare's plays were Histories (I know of a novel where this idea was also used, anachronisms and all, but I'm not going quite that far), the heroes of the old pulp adventures were all active in the past, magic exists as a sort of underground subculture, and archaeologists have recently begun salvaging from the underwater ruins of Atlantis. Despite this, most of the main cast are completely original characters, albeit ones that are related to existing characters (for example, the protagonist is a descendant of Sherlock Holmes' enemy Professor Moriarty). There are only two borrowed characters in leading roles at the moment- one is my interpretation of what Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes would be like as an adult, and the other is Jenny Everywhere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Everywhere).
Because of this setting, we have elements of alternate history (for example, Josiah Bartlett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Bartlet) served as President of the United States from 1999-2006, and the immortal demon Koshchei the Deathless (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshchei) took control of Russia after the death of Peter the Great and ruled for several decades), fantasy (the aforementioned magic and gods), and science fiction (mad science and aliens are very much a reality in this 'verse). The plot itself has thriller elements to it, as it deals mainly with espionage and conspiracy theories (one line suggests that the events of the conspiracy stories of Dan Brown and other writers were set up with fake evidence by the real conspiracy, to throw off the public).
As far as the writing itself goes, I'll probably write it in a very tongue-in-cheek way, piling on ridiculously cool situations while discussing just how bizarre they actually are. But the story itself isn't exactly a comedy, either- the plot is dead serious. It's just that the characters (who also serve as narrators, since I plan to write this in the form of letters, diary entries, memos, and other documents, rather than outright prose) don't take their situation all that seriously unless they really have to.
So, interstice? If not, what would it qualify as?