Tried writing a story that would combine all of fiction in one WMG

Six years ago after reading, watching, and listening to almost every type of story I thought "hey they could all fit together in one world" in a similar fashion to Alan Moore's League of Extdnry Gentlemen, Planetary, etc. I mean World of the Worlds———>Watchmen—->Lain->iRobot->Terminator->Matrix->Star Trek->Star Wars

Well soon afterwards I used everything from South Park, Haruhi Suzumiya, Death Note, Umineko and it snowballed from there, then it really got crazy when I found out about TV Tropes and WMG. So now I have over 2000 pages of word document outlining a giant story that would encompass all the works of fiction I have seen across all media into one story, and I don;t even think I've seen 1/100000 of all the stories out there.

So yeah now it's kind of an impossible project ^^;

I imagine it would have to be an active project anyway if you intend to fit in everything since fiction keeps getting made.

Do a good fraction of stories, like a lot of the big, famous, ones. It's as impossible as creating a story with all of the tropes.

I tried to do something like this once. The central cog involved the idea that half of fiction was "the real world" and everywhere else took place inside a computer and all those characters were Net Navis

Not really worth the effort honestly.

If you really want to do that then you need to pare down the number of characters you're using. And possibly tie it one time period; Alan Moore probably could have used a lot more characters, but settled down and chose specific ones and a specific time period. It's likely this made it much easier to do the story.

I was thinking of putting this story in the modern day so modern pop cultural references could be made. I was thinking of having centered around a South Park liked town, and like some of Alan Moore's work I wanted the characters to be thinnly veiled and ambiglous so the reader could make up his mind on who each character was based on. Though I was thinking if you used Doctor Who and the Time Lords, Haruhi Suzumiya, Calvin and Hobbies, and Umineko they could basically explain everything that has ever happened in fiction.

How do/did you combine the like of Fallout and Babylon 5? Since both of them portray the same time, they can't "normally" happen at once.

edited 26th Feb '11 11:37:47 AM by Yej

Shifted timelines? Post-apocalyptic Fallout 3, then as humanity digs itself out the dredges, interstellar space travel becomes commonplace. I think this also allows for fitting in my beloved classic A Canticle For Leibowitz.

As much as I hated to do it I actually used the multiple worlds/timelines idea. For example most of the fiction takes place in this world, Earth Prime, but I also made it so that Oz, Wonderland, Neverland, and Narina could also exist. Since there are numerous time traveler's in fiction (HG Well's time travler, Asahina from Haruhi Suzumiya, Mc Fly from Back to the Future, Terminator, Time Squad etc) I used the from the reallife time travler hoax, John Titor, the time that time is not constant but always changing (like with John Titor the future you return too is slightly different), this could account for the alternative timelines that are brought up in Turtledove's novels.

Sounds like a good idea, I would love to read it.

Actually I think your explaination covers it, though it would be a daunting task to write, perhaps in parts.

A story that combines all of fiction? How does it end?

Hey! That's really interesting idea! I'm trying something similar to that (see Using As Many Tropes As Possible). You would definitely some kind of Time/Alternate Universe travelling device.

It would never end, I would begin with all the myths of creation and continue forever, hopefully someone else would pick up the story after I get bored or done with my part.

I suppose a Singularity can end it. Perhaps humankind does ascend to a higher plane of existence, or someone inadvertently causes the end of the known universe.

I tried something like this recently with a Fall Out 3 /Cowboy Bebop Crossover Fic. While it wasn't ALL of fiction, I was throwing in everything else that I thought would fit, from Mad Max to Firefly. Some examples included: Liberty Prime was a reprogrammed version of The Iron Giant; The Enclave were agents of The Alliance; the Signs aliens were Abominations from Mothership Zeta; Super intelligent dogs are all over the place.

Needless to say, the timeline was absolutely broken, the story was dead on arrival, and I eventually threw in the towel and declared it a new setting entirely.

edited 8th Mar '11 12:00:53 PM by Carbonek13

Sorry, Robert Heinlein beat you to it.

It better have zombies in it! Lots of zombies! Mostly because my first desire in such a story would probably not feasible.