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aNARCHY rULES has roots going back to "Babylon 5", the extraordinary "novel for television" of Joe Straczynski; to the Wachowski siblings' "The Matrix", exploring alternative super-hero origins, or super-hero origins "gone wrong"; to the "Culture" novels of Iain M Banks; to John Le Carré's "Circus", obviously, and to Ian Fleming's James Bond; to "Doctor Who", and it's evil spin-off sibling "Faction Paradox", the work of Lawrence Miles, who deserves to and ought to be remembered in this company, and to the granddaddy of them all, HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
Basically, everything I ever read.
These works are, themselves, all liberally seeded with icons and symbols tracing back to earlier sources – "Babylon 5" draws in Tolkien and Camelot; "The Matrix's" Neo is, like Superman, a not-very-disguised Christ analogue; "Doctor Who" steals liberally from everything from Asimov to Agatha Christie to Art Deco... and that's in just one story.
"Doctor Who" long ago took the path of saying that all stories are part of its canon, even ones that contradict each other. Even ones that aren't "Doctor Who" stories.
All of which leads to the idea of a fictional World built, like Troy, upon layer upon layer of earlier fictional worlds.
As Monkfish himself puts it:
"If the Many Worlds hypothesis is true, then everything is true."
My intention is to publish one story a month, with interludes or sidebars or relevant commentary following a couple of weeks after each story, and let them build into a greater whole.
The first volume will be "before dawn".
It consists of seven stories and is very much the prologue and the introduction to the larger world of aNARCHY rULES.
The second volume will be called "gods & men".
Chaos reigns. But aNARCHY rULES.
Please join me.