Days of future multiplied

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Ankaret Wells

I have made the executive decision that since I already had a vaguely planned-out future history for how we get from here to Requite (yes, it is all in my head, I contain multitudes) it could just as well do for the time-travel thing (provisionally entitled ‘Anna Chronistic and the Scarab of Destiny’) which I am writing at present as well. Though it does have frankly terrifying crossover possibilities, particularly since not only is Tzenni Boccamera fully capable of back-engineering a time machine, so is Lady Essex Hawkwood who has far fewer compunctions about what to do with it.

7 thoughts on “Days of future multiplied”

ashbet says:

January 30, 2015 at 7:06 pm

DEFINITELY don’t want Lady Essex getting hold of it! (Tzenni might experimentally send bits of grue back “just to see what happens” — Essex would be leading a column of pillagers.)

I know that “Firebrand” is set in a different worldbuild/ruleset, but humanity might have lost a colony somewhere along the way, which developed in an airships-and-warplings-and-comedy-of-manners sense . . .

. . . I just want more Firebrand-verse, and the idea of crossovers (what WOULD Coranzan society make of the Hawkwoods??!?) tickles me 😉

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1. Ankaret Wells says:
  
  January 30, 2015 at 9:26 pm
  
  GRUES IN THE TIME CONTINUUM.
  
  I keep saying that one of these days I’ll write a book called ‘Warpling’ about the adventures of a weaponised exclamation mark. Never say never…
  
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  1. ashbet says:
    
    January 30, 2015 at 9:41 pm
    
    *grins* Well, since Jim Butcher’s entire Codex Alera series was the result of a bet involving a challenge to combine the concepts of “a lost Roman legion” and “Pokemon,” I find the idea compelling. I know you could do something amusing and engaging with it!
    
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    1. Ankaret Wells says:
      
      January 30, 2015 at 9:45 pm
      
      Now that is a pitch that I am interested in checking out, and I don’t normally do Roman fantasy.
      
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      1. ashbet says:
        
        January 31, 2015 at 4:31 pm
        
        You can see the Roman bone structure in certain aspects of the society, and in the names of many of the characters, but it’s pretty far from what I generally think of as Roman fantasy (more like, “what happens when you graft Roman human social structure onto a fantasy world with very different rules from Earth?”)
        
        I really enjoyed the series — and I’m not just saying that because I was one of the original beta-readers for what eventually became the first Codex Alera book 😉
        
        (I’ve dropped out of touch with Jim in recent years, mostly because I went through some rough years where I lost contact with a LOT of friends after I had to quit working, and by the time I tried to get back in touch, he was well-known enough not to be posting a personal e-mail address on his website anymore, and his contacts with me had been through employer e-mails that I didn’t have access to anymore.)
        
        Still thrills me to bits to see him get endcaps and name recognition — he’s a really sweet, kind, funny guy, and it makes me happy to see a friend who was an unpublished author when I met him on a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan e-mail list (yes, really) turn out to be a major success ^___^
        
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Helen says:

January 31, 2015 at 2:06 pm

*Cackles with glee* Also, I love your working title!

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1. Ankaret Wells says:
  
  February 1, 2015 at 6:05 pm
  
  I seriously doubt there will ever be official crossovers because it drives me loopy when I like a writer’s style but am bored with one series of books, try another series of theirs that I think is set in another universe and it turns out they’re all interconnected. But it’s there for fan writers to play with if they ever want to.
  
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