Hey there, looking for some opinions for this
What do you guys think about a world that fully changes like our own did over the time. Namely starting somewhere in the medival times and then progressing until it reaches a science fiction setting...
I have yet to find anything like this and thought it would be interesting to try, what do you think?
Aug '17Aug '17
Piers Anthony (who is no Shakespeare, don't get me wrong) did this in a more limited way with his "Isle of Woman" series. I enjoyed reading those even though as I said the writing left much to be desired. I was definitely left wanting more of the concept, but perhaps executed better and more intricately.
So I can tell you that personally, I'd enjoy seeing someone tackle such an endeavor.
Go for it, I'd read it.
I tend to do more cross-over fiction: it's as much about how technology evolved from the eighties, as the present day political climate.
So I'm positive what you're doing can be done.
Not sure about novels, but that sounds a bit like Osamu Tezuka's manga series Phoenix, although I think it jumps around between past and future rather than progress linearly (I only read a part of it a long time ago and don't remember what happened in it).
But I think it'd be interesting to see a different take on that idea!
It sounds like a good idea to me. You can also have your world change differently than reality. Like, in our world it's all about technology, but maybe in your world it's something different.
Since I love worldbuilding I'd love t read something like this. The only problem is that if the characters change all the time, with the passage of time meaning some die along the way, and by the end the characters are wholly different, that might alienate readers who really like certain characters. So your world and your characters both need to be very compelling
The idea I got so far is that characters change every three books, the old protagonists stick around though and still do their thing the focus is just diferted to the new cast. Over time the old character will age and die (some of them at least) while others become gods, or the helpers of gods, or people rebelling against them...
Some return as myths, so the protagonists will hear stories about a battle that took place a hundred years in the past and wonder what it was like while the reader knows that story and will most likely find things changed.
But hey... I am barely half way done with the first book so this will take a long long long long time...
The myth concept is interesting. If you read about Haitian history for example, they have an intimate relationship with their forefathers (sometimes calling them daddy), even though they lived almost 200 years old. I imagine you'll have to work a lot in a timeline and read a lot of history to get solid ideas.
yes... the timeline is kinda tricky since I got to make up a progressive world that invents both ideologies and technology in a way that is believable while still keeping magic and gods in play... It is, if nothing else, a lot of fun 
For the sake of time needed, I would recommend that you build a simplified timeline just for you, and then write excerpts of real world documents instead of narratives (example: the work of a historian from your world, newspaper, religious accounts, journals). Then when you build your narrative, you can build it more from the perspective of that world.
I also don't like when the narrator spends all your reading time to explain the world to you. I'd rather discover it myself as I read through and formulate questions myself.
I started out with a buttload of short stories about individuals in the world... after I gathered quite a bit I began my first try of teh book (which ended a week into the project since I miserably failed due to lack of skill) I then started out with an easier peice set in the future of my world and after that was done I did the actual beginning of the book.
if any of you are interested in it I got a couple of chapters here on tapas already.
Currently the most work is doing exactly what you said, getting more short stories and historian reports (the reports are tricky though since I am new to that kind of writting)
The vague Timeline is a patchwork but it will hold for the first three books... after that I will need to expand and get more stuff done. Sorry for the text wall but I am kinda excited about this project... even if it is just because I suffer delusions of grandeur.
Thank you all for the feedback! Feeling a lot more motivated now that I know people are interested in something like this.
Scrapped Princess was a popular anime that did this. And Van Hellsing, Castlevania (in a sort of limited way), Vampire Knights.. gosh lots of vampire manga have stories that stretch over generations of time. Oh and Buccano! (I love that one)
So I think your story would be in good company. 
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