1	Literary Archaeology and Parascholarship Contributors to CREATIVE MYTHOGRAPHY: An Expansion of Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, Win Eckert, Pete Coogan, and Chuck Loridans explain the literary archaeology of works of parascholarship like: Farmer’s hoax biography Tarzan Alive Mark Gruenwald’s prozine Omniverse James Sturm’s Unstable Molecules.
2	Introduction to the Wold Newton Universe: Philip José Farmer’s Unified Field Theory for Pulp Fiction Pete Coogan
3	“For Those Who Came In Late…” Philip José Farmer Celebrated science-fiction author, three-time winner of the Hugo Award, as well as the Nebula Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Riverworld series World of Tiers series The “Wold Newton Family” cycle of pseudo-biographies, essays, novels, and short stories…
4	Dec. 13,1795 – Meteor Strike, Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England
5	From The Gentleman's Magazine 1796 Several persons at Wold Cottage, in Yorkshire, Dec. 13, 1795, heard various noises in the air, like pistols, or distant guns at sea, felt two distinct concussions of the earth, and heard a hissing noise passing through the air; and a labouring man plainly saw that something was so passing, and beheld a stone descending and striking into the ground, which flew up all about him, and, in falling, sparks of fire seemed to fly from it. Afterwards he went to the place, in common with others who had witnessed part of the phaenomenon, and dug the stone up from the place where it was buried about 21 inches deep. It smelled, as is said, very strongly of sulphur when it was dug up, and was even warm, and smoked.
6	Present at the Meteor Strike Coach Passengers John Clayton, third Duke of Greystoke, and his wife, Alicia Rutherford – Tarzan Sir Percy Blakeney, and his (second) wife, Alice Clarke Raffles – The Scarlet Pimpernel Fitzwilliam Darcy, and his wife, Elizabeth Bennett – Pride and Prejudice George Edward Rutherford, and his wife, Elizabeth Cavendish – The Lost World Honore Delagardie, and his wife, Philippa Drummond – Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond Dr. Siger Holmes, and his wife, Violet Clarke – Sherlock Holmes Baronet Hugh Drummond – Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond Coachmen Other Louis Lupin – Arsène Lupin On horseback: Sebastian Noel – Prof. Moriarty Albert Lecoq – Monsieur Lecoq Nearby: Juno, a dog – Old Yeller Arthur Blake – Sexton Blake Unnamed Ploughman
7	The Wold Newton Conclave Coach passengers went to hold a secret meeting at Wold Newton to decide to end the French Revolution* Decided upon Napoleon Buonaparte as the means * according to Jean-Marc Lofficier; Farmer himself offers no reason as to the purpose of the visit to Wold Newton
8	Descendants of the Meteor Strike These families intermarried in the following generations, reinforcing the gene mutated by the radiation of the meteor, eventually producing what Farmer calls a “nova of genetic splendor, this outburst of great detectives, scientists, and explorers of exotic worlds, this last efflorescence of true heroes in an otherwise degenerate age.” The heroic contributors and inheritors of this gene are members of the Wold Newton Family, including: Solomon Kane; Captain Blood; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Harry Flashman; Sherlock Holmes; Captain Nemo; Phileas Fogg; The Time Traveler; Tarzan and his son Korak; A.J. Raffles; Professor Challenger; Richard Hannay; Bulldog Drummond;Sir Denis Nayland Smith; G-8; The Shadow; Sam Spade; Doc Savage, his cousin Pat Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair; The Spider; Nero Wolfe; Mr. Moto; The Avenger; Philip Marlowe; James Bond; Lew Archer; and Travis McGee And the villainous ones: Fu Manchu, Professor Moriarty, Carl Peterson, and Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
9	P.J. Farmer’s Wold Newton Bios: Tarzan Alive
10	P.J. Farmer’s Wold Newton Bios: Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life
11	Earlier Biographies
12	Farmer’s Wold Newton Fiction
13	Farmer’s Series Fiction
14	Expanding Philip José Farmer’s WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE (WNU)
15	The Crossover Premise Prime example: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. novel # 13: The Rainbow Affair by David McDaniel Brings together Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Nayland Smith, and James Bond (all already in the Wold Newton Universe, based on Farmer’s Wold Newton Family trees), with The Men From U.N.C.L.E, The Avengers, The Saint, Inspector West, Department Z, and Miss Marple (all added to the Wold Newton Universe by this crossover)
16	The Crossover Premise Sherlock Holmes and… Dr. Fu Manchu Count Dracula The Martian Invasion
17	The Crossover Premise Sherlock Holmes and…
18	The Crossover Premise Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volumes I and II One of the “ultimate” WNU crossovers: Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Mycroft Holmes, and Prof. Moriarty were already put in the WNU by P.J. Farmer. This crossover also adds Mina Murray (from Dracula), Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, and other elements too numerous to mention. For full info on all characters, see Jess Nevins’ LOEG companion books, Heroes and Monsters (MonkeyBrain, 2003) and A Blazing World (MonkeyBrain, 2004).
19	The Crossover Premise Pulp Hero Crossovers
20	The Crossover Premise Pulp Hero Crossovers
21	Superheroes and Comic Book Universes The WNU is not a mirror of a superhero universe Pulp heroes, Victorian detectives, jungle explorers, hard-boiled private eyes, secret agents, and, in the distant past, sword and sorcery heroes, are the mainstays of the Wold Newton Universe (WNU). In keeping with Mr. Farmer’s primary source material, Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, there are also some Lovecraftian horror, mainstream horror, science-fictional, and classical literature aspects. Farmer did “open the door” to superheroes with a throwaway line in Doc Savage, mentioning Lois Lane as a possible sister to The Shadow’s Margo Lane. There is no doubt that Farmer, with this offhand comment, did not intend to open the floodgates and consolidate the whole DC Comics Universe with his Wold Newton stories and biographies. “WNU-friendly” versions of superheroes are welcome, but they should be imported into the WNU in a way that does not overpower WNU continuity or the other WNU characters. When you see a superhero included in the WNU, think of the WNU as a parallel Earth (i.e. DC’s Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-3, Earth-X, Earth-WNU) that has a version of that superhero.
22	Superheroes and Comic Book Universes The WNU is not a mirror of a superhero universe The superhero’s original character, power level, and origin may be maintained, but we should avoid importing the whole history, continuity, and character-set of the comic-book universe. Therefore 40-60 years of conflicting continuity and “rebooted” universes will likely be jettisoned in order to maintain a “WNU-friendly” version of the character. Since we are not importing the whole history and continuity of the comic-book universe, superheroes do not automatically bring in other superheroes through crossovers that take place within their own comic universes; superheroes must meet a “mainstream” WNU character to be considered part of the WNU. Since, on the surface, the WNU closely resembles the “real world outside our window,” the WNU versions of superheroes… probably operated for less time than as portrayed by comic book publishers were less powerful than as generally described in the comics (think in terms of the Golden Age Superman for maximum levels of power in the WNU) adventures’ were considerably less flamboyant, cosmic, and earth-shaking (both literally and socio-politically) than in the comic universes.
23	The Crossover Premise Superhero Crossovers
24	The Crossover Premise Superhero Crossovers
25	The Nature of an Expanded Wold Newton Universe: The “Real World” Do Mr. Farmer’s works (and, by extension, an expanded WNU) take place in the “real world”? “Yes and no.” Readers of Farmer’s seminal Wold Newton “biography,” Tarzan Alive, understand he followed in the Holmesian tradition of treating his subject as a real person who actually lived. However, readers who have carefully and scrupulously reviewed the remainder of Mr. Farmer’s Wold Newton works, including his follow-up “biography,” Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, understand that he moved away from this confining literary pretense. Even Tarzan Alive departs from “reality” with its contention that Tarzan is immortal, as well as the inclusion of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger stories. Farmer’s movement away from the confining non-fiction “real world” literary premise has lead many WNU Creative Mythographers, who have chosen to work together to reach consensus on many Wold Newton issues, to treat the WNU as a parallel universe that mirrors and emulates the real world as much as reasonably possible, without being compulsively, obsessively strict about it.
26	“Creative Mythography”: A phrase coined by P.J. Farmer in his Doc Savage: An Apocalyptic Life Crossovers are just one method Creative Mythographers use to expand the WNU. Creative Mythographers (aka “Literary Archaeologists”) also speculate, conjecture, and theorize, eventually memorializing their theories in essays and articles which… fill in genealogical “holes” in various family trees reconcile seemingly conflicting information answer burning questions which are raised by different elements of the Wold Newton Universe. Creative Mythographers post their own essays, as well as host articles by other contributors, on various websites.
27	Creative Mythography A Timeline “Post-Farmerian” Creative Mythography began in the late 1970s with the Wold Atlas, but the fanzine only lasted 5 issues. 1997: Win Eckert launched the first Wold Newton website: An Expansion of Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe <http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Pulp2.htm> 2000 and beyond: several more websites launched, including: Mark Brown, The Wold Newton Chronicles, <http://www.pjfarmer.com/chronicles/index.htm> Chuck Loridans, MONSTAAH: Maximum Observation and / or Nullification of Supernatural Terrors Autonomous Agents Headquarters, <http://monstaah.org> Jean-Marc Lofficier, French Wold Newton Universe, <http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/wnu1.htm> Jess Nevins, Some Unknown Members of the Wold Newton Family, <http://ratmmjess.tripod.com/wold.html> Dennis Power, The Secret History of the Wold Newton Universe, <http://www.pjfarmer.com/secret/secret.htm>
28	“Wold-Newtonry” as Scholarship
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30	Academic Discourse Community Communication (including publication) Relationships between scholars Treatment of sources and texts
31	Wold-Newtonry as Scholarly Discourse Community Academic Discourse Community vs. Scholarly Discourse Community Scholarly discourse usually = Academic discourse Most fields, scholars are academics and academics are scholars
32	Communication University courses Conference papers Journal articles Books from university presses Validity through peer-review Paper-centric No courses No conferences Web articles Books from commercial presses Validity through consensus citation Web-centric
33	Scholarly Relations Refine, extend, and transmit knowledge Truthfulness is both an ethical norm and the basis for rules of academic professionalism Accurate summary and acknowledgement of others’ work — shared authorship,citations, discussion within text Commitment to intellectual honesty — distortion or misrepresentation of another scholar’s work is always unacceptable. Intellectual property rights must be respected Refine, extend, and transmit knowledge A fiction about fiction — fictional characters are real people Accurate summary and acknowledgement of others’ work — shared authorship,citations, discussion within text Principle of outsourcing — others’ sources may be declared illegitimate Intellectual property rights must be respected
34	Treatment of Sources Verifiable sources (no fabrication of data) Relevant sources, evidence, or texts must be acknowledged and dealt with Sources, depictions, and illustrations must be reproduced accurately Undesirable findings must be acknowledged; failed experiments must be published Invent sources; misrepresent published work Disagreeing sources can be ignored or declared fictional, unreliable, or distorted Sources, depictions, and illustrations may be manipulated Undesirable findings do not exist
35	Manipulation of Illustrations
36	Writing Wold Newton Articles
37	Inspiration The Avenger #15: House of Death
38	"“Carmillia’s screams kept sounding" “Carmillia’s screams kept sounding, because she and Nellie had not plunged down with the rest of the stuff. And that was due to Nellie’s almost super human agility. As had been demonstrated when she had outwitted the Mastiff, she was trained in traveling high among branches of trees.”
39	Concept Nellie Gray of Justice Inc.
40	Evidence 1914, Aug. to 1918, Oct. The events of Tarzan the Untamed
41	Looking for Clues
42	Methods of Research
43	Additions
44	The Wold Newton Book CREATIVE MYTHOGRAPHY: An Expansion of José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe
45	The Wold Newton Book CREATIVE MYTHOGRAPHY “MonkeyBrain, Inc. is pleased to announce CREATIVE MYTHOGRAPHY: AN EXPANSION OF PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER'S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE, edited by Win Eckert, and with essays by a variety of writers, academics, and pop-culture scholars, including long unavailable selections by Philip José Farmer himself.” Assembles Farmer’s previously uncollected Wold Newton articles. Brings the Wold Newton concept, as well as many long-overlooked characters, to a new audience. Fully authorized and endorsed by Philip José Farmer. The anthology will be published by MonkeyBrain Books <http://www.monkeybrainbooks.com> and will be available in 2005.
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