invisible_ficathon

[raspberryhunter]

Yeah, um, I'm way too excited about this: invisible_ficathon, for all those works of fiction inside other works.

Things I am nominating for sure:
The Hive Queen and/or The Hegemon, Speaker for the Dead (Andrew Wiggin)
Encyclopedia Galactica
The Garden of Forking Paths, Ts'ui Pen
Ask and Embla, Randolph Henry Ash
The City of Is, Christabel LaMotte
No Skin Off Your Nose, Ike [does he even have a last name? from Fountainhead]

Things I am thinking of nominating:
...I'm going to have to reread Possession and possibly all my other nominations will be from it
Orange Catholic Bible
In My Father's House, Princess Irulan (...although I can't really see how to write fic of this without it really being Dune fic, so... I might not)
The Final Reflection, John M. Ford (...does that count, since we get the entire text of the book? Perhaps I'd better save that one for the next trek-fic fest.)
Well That About Wraps It Up for God, Oolon Colluphid
The Blind Assassin, Laura Chase

Any other thoughts? Gosh, maybe I can stick one of the many songs/media Cordwainer Smith refers to in there.

Comments

[el_staplador]

This is a thing? Awesome! I am so in.

(I am already thinking The Healing Fountain by Hilary Thorpe, the Sven Hjersson novels by Ariadne Oliver, and the Robert Templeton novels by Harriet Vane...)

[raspberryhunter]

Is this not a super awesome idea?!

I believe you have already been beaten to the Oliver and Vane :) Although I think they both wrote a bunch... :)

I want to know who nominated The Horn of Joy by Matthew Maddox, which yes.

[luzula]

Wow, that's a cool idea for a ficathon!

[raspberryhunter]

I knooooow! I suddenly went from "never having thought about having a ficathon like this at all" to "OMG awesome!"

[luzula]

I'm not really reading it, but there's a looong discussion thread on the tag wranglers email list about how to wrangle these fandoms. g

[raspberryhunter]

Ha. I bet. I wish the fandoms had the "parent" fandoms, if you will, in them... though I suppose that would make it very unruly.

[morbane]

Many of the canons make me simultaneously want to run towards them crying "gimme," and run away from them muttering "can. not. write."

It's a concern.

[raspberryhunter]

The problem for me is that it's supposed to be fanfic of these fictional works! I... am not sure I'll be able to write that, exactly.

[sprocket]

That sounds awesome.

(Adventures of Captain Vortalon? Lord Vorthalia the Bold? Do kiddie vids count as a work of fiction? Hee.)

[raspberryhunter]

Ha! YES THEY DO. I think melannen was thinking about nominating them. But you could! :)