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)
•The Crossover Chronology
–High-level timeline of the Wold Newton Universe
(WNU)
–Takes characters included by Farmer in his
“biographies” as a baseline for the Universe
–Adds more characters to the WNU (and possibly
also, but not necessarily, to the mutant Wold Newton
Family)
•Comic book, film, or television, sources are
quite acceptable
–Should not contradict an original source
–Seemingly contradictory sources can be shown to
fit after all, through scholarly articles, research, and theories
