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MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE:
PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER'S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE

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In his classic “biographies” of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip José Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER’S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE, edited by Win Scott Eckert, collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer’s successors—scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians—who bring even more fictional characters into the fold.

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1795 - Wold Newton meteor strike: Eighteen individuals "were riding in two coaches past Wold Newton, Yorkshire.... A meteorite struck only twenty yards from the two coaches.... The bright light and heat and thunderous roar of the meteorite blinded and terrorized the passengers, coachmen, and horses.... They never guessed, being ignorant of ionization, that the fallen star had affected them and their unborn." Tarzan Alive, Addendum 2, pp. 247-248. The meteor strike was "the single cause of this 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." Id., pp.230-231.         Artwork by Lisa Eckert

 

 

THE WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE

 

Maintained by Win Scott Eckert

 

WOLD NEWTON FAMILY TREES


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The following family tree graphics explain the relationship between many of the Wold Newton Cast of Characters. The first two family trees, by Philip José Farmer, form the basis for the extended continuity described on the Wold Newton Universe site.

 



Read the companion article, "They Seek Him There....": The Demmed Fine Blakeney Family Tree by Win Scott Eckert

Read the companion articles, The House of Frankenstein by Mark Brown and Children of the Night by Chuck Loridans

Read the companion article, The Secret History of Captain Nemo by Rick Lai

Read the companion articles, The Amazing Lanes by Win Scott Eckert, An Addendum to the Amazing Lanes by Dennis Power, and Hyde and Hair by Dennis Power

Read the companion articles, The Porters by Chuck Loridans and An Addendum to The Porters by Dennis Power

Read the companion article, The James Bond Chronology and Genealogy by Win Scott Eckert

Read the companion articles, Masked Men: A Chronology of the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet by Mark Ellis, Matthew Baugh, and Win Eckert, and Masked Memories: The Reids by Dennis Power

Read the companion article, The Great Danes, by Dennis Hager

Read the companion article, LYCANTHROPEDIA: Zoo’s Who in the Wold Newton Universe - Part 1: The Talbots by I. R. Schablotski

 

Special thanks to Dennis Power for creating some of the graphics. Please also visit his own Wold Newton Family Tree page at The Secret History of the Wold Newton Universe.


WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE CAST OF CHARACTERS, PART IPART II, PART III, and PART IV


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