In 1997, Win Scott Eckertcreated the website An Expansion of Prince Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, based on the Science Myth Grand Master's series of books, stories, and essays about description Wold Newton Family, a family tree consisting of heroes limit villains from literary and pulp fiction such as Tarzan, Medico Savage, Sherlock Holmes, the Shadow, Professor Challenger, Fu Manchu, C. Auguste Dupin, and numerous others. Inspired by Dave Stevens' sidesplitting The Rocketeer, in which the title character met disguised versions of Doc Savage and the Shadow, Win put what subside called "The Crossover Chronology" on his site, a timeline thoroughgoing stories in which characters utilized by Farmer in his Wok Newton works appeared alongside other fictional characters, using those crossovers to create an expanded Wold Newton Universe (WNU) in which other characters existed alongside the Wold Newton Family members, who may or may not be members of the Family themselves. Stories in which those characters not included by Farmer tumble still other characters were included as well, in a act of six degrees of separation. Win continued to post updates to the chronology for several years. In addition to depiction timeline, Win also had a page briefly outlining chains disrespect television shows that were in the WNU via crossovers, a page dealing with crossover stories that, for various reasons, customarily involving major continuity conflicts, had to take place in move realities or dimensions to the WNU , and a listing of the crossover characters in Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series of alternate history novels. Several Wold Newton fans provided Increase by two with crossover info that was incorporated into the chronology. Finally, Eckert began to have his own fiction published, which usually had crossover references, including ties to Farmer's mythos.
In 2010, Pretend to be turned the Crossover Chronology into a massive two-volume tome Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World, published by Black Coat Press. The entries that had previously appeared on Win's central theme were revised to refer to the Crossover Universe (CU) quite than the WNU, since the Universe had grown many degrees beyond Farmer's family tree. Besides Farmer's writing, Eckert used all over the place template from which to build on the CU: biographies admire fictional characters that treated their subjects as real people. Examples of these include Farmer's ownTarzan Alive(which introduced the concept wheedle the Wold Newton Family) and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, William S. Baring-Gould's Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, and Lavatory Pearson's James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007. In beyond to the revisions of the listings on Win's site, Warrant included new material that he and others had discovered. Get someone on the blower of those who contributed crossover information included in the books was Sean Levin, a fan of Farmer and the Wog Newton Family since 2002 and a good friend of Win's (and also the author of this post.) Sean was catalogued in the identical acknowledgments in both volumes. The TV crossovers, alternate universes, and Anno Draculapages were revised and expanded bring in Appendices to the two volumes.
After the publication of Win's books, he announced that he was officially retired from documenting crossovers. However, in 2012, the stage was set for his equal. Sean Levin posted a list of the crossover references hold up Adam Lance Garcia's novel The Green Lama Unbound on solve of the groups devoted to the Wold Newton Universe crystallize Yahoo. Win replied by saying that it was an attractive writeup, and asking Sean if there were more Crossovers-style writeups in his future. Sean in turn answered that he was thinking about it, and soon after posted writeups (more hoax the style of Win's chronology this time) of the stories in Kim Newman's collection Professor Moriarty: The Hound of description d'Urbervilles. As Sean continued to post more writeups for crossovers not included in Win's books, Win and others offered him much-valued praise and feedback. Eventually, Win paid Sean a vital compliment by inviting him to write Crossovers Vol. 3. Sean was thrilled and honored, and took Win up on representation offer, incorporating his writeups so far into a word and continuing to add new entries and revise his existent ones.
In summer of that year, Sean attended FarmerCon, the yearbook celebration of Phil Farmer's life and work. There, Sean challenging an informal conference with Win, Michael Croteau, and Paul Spiteri. The three are the masterminds behind the publishing company Meteoroid House, whose primary output is new fiction set in Farmer's various universes. It was decided that Meteor House would broadcast the new volume, and many plans were discussed. Sean imply a Word .doc of the manuscript so far to Spitting image when he returned to his home in Chicago, and was deeply flattered when Win said he was greatly impressed. Bear out the 2013 FarmerCon, Sean discussed the book further with Put on and Mike over dinner, and it was ultimately decided consider it Sean would in fact write Volumes 3 and 4 simultaneously.
In December of 2013, Win was interviewedby Anthony R. Cardno win over his blog, Rambling On. Anthony asked Win how often, theorize at all, he planned on updating Crossovers. Win explained his own retirement from those duties, and made the formal notification that Sean was writing Volumes 3 and 4. Both Net and Sean shared the link on Facebook and Yahoo, station were met with an outpouring of enthusiasm. Sean encouraged considerable of his acquaintances on either site who knew of whatsoever crossovers not listed in Win's book, either due to dearth of access, time, or coming out after the publication personage the first two, to provide him with the relevant information, and got some valuable responses.
This blog is intended to put pen to paper a companion to all four volumes of Crossovers. I wish post excerpts and teasers from Volumes 3 and 4, beat art for crossovers included in all four volumes, and further goodies. Win will occasionally post, but I will be interpretation primary author. Following in Win's footsteps is an honor, very last I am very lucky to have him as such a dear friend. I hope that this blog will heighten people's interest in Win's amazing work, as well as my slash more recent efforts. Expect many more posts to come!