The Works of John C. McCrae, AKA, Wildbow

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The Works of John C. McCrae, AKA, Wildbow

Postby Ridtom » Thu Nov 10, 2016 8:21 pm

We've already had a topic for Worm here,http://thecommentsection.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1401&p=32692&hilit=worm#p32692, but Wildbow has moved on since then with two new stories (one of which is still on-going).

In chronological order:

Worm - https://parahumans.wordpress.com/
An introverted teenage girl with an unconventional superpower, Taylor goes out in costume to find escape from a deeply unhappy and frustrated civilian life. Her first attempt at taking down a supervillain sees her mistaken for one, thrusting her into the midst of the local ‘cape’ scene’s politics, unwritten rules, and ambiguous morals. As she risks life and limb, Taylor faces the dilemma of having to do the wrong things for the right reasons.

The story, titled Worm, takes the form of a web serial, posted in bite-sized reads in much the same way that authors such as Mark Twain would release their works one chapter at a time in the days before full-fledged novels. Worm started in June 2011, updating twice a week, and finished in late November, 2013. It totals roughly 1,680,000 words; roughly 26 typical novels in length (or 10-11 very thick novels). The story updated on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with bonus chapters appearing on the occasional Thursday, as explained below.

The actual work is divided into a number of story arcs, each containing five to sixteen individual chapters. Interludes (side stories) are inserted between each story arc to showcase events from different perspectives or provide some background information that the reader wouldn’t get from Taylor’s point of view. Further interludes were released as bonus content when the audience reached specific donation goals, but these were found to distract from the core story (with a good reception, but still) and were paced out more in favor of additional main-story chapters.


Pact - https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/
Blake Thorburn was driven away from home and family by a vicious fight over inheritance, returning only for a deathbed visit with the grandmother who set it in motion. Blake soon finds himself next in line to inherit the property, a trove of dark supernatural knowledge, and the many enemies his grandmother left behind her in the small town of Jacob’s Bell.

Pact is the second undertaking of Wildbow (J.C. McCrae in real life) following the completion of the popular superhero web serial Worm. Pact is a web serial in the modern supernatural genre, and was updated one chapter at a time on Tuesdays and Saturdays, 12:01am, eastern standard time. Chapters are grouped into arcs, five to ten chapters that cover a single theme or substory, with side content appearing between arcs. It now joins Worm as a finished work, having run for a little over a year and three months.


Twig - https://twigserial.wordpress.com/about/
The year is 1921, and a little over a century has passed since a great mind unraveled the underpinnings of life itself. Every week, it seems, the papers announce great advances, solving the riddle of immortality, successfully reviving the dead, the cloning of living beings, or blending of two animals into one. For those on the ground, every week brings new mutterings of work taken by ‘stitched’ men of patchwork flesh that do not need to sleep, or more fearful glances as they have to step off the sidewalks to make room for great laboratory-grown beasts. Often felt but rarely voiced is the notion that events are already spiraling out of the control of the academies that teach these things.

It is only this generation, they say, that the youth and children are able to take the mad changes in stride, accepting it all as a part of day to day life. Of those children, a small group of strange youths from the Lambsbridge Orphanage stand out, taking a more direct hand in events.

Twig is Wildbow’s (J.C. McCrae’s) third web serial, following the underground hit Worm and the successful-enough Pact. As was the case for the prior two stories, Twig will be written on Mondays, some Wednesdays (see below), and Fridays, with chapters going live somewhere between midnight and 3am EST (thus being released very first thing on Tuesdays, some Thursdays, and Saturdays). Chapters are grouped into story arcs each about as long as a novella or short novel, listed in the table of contents and available on the sidebar.


Twig is the on-going title and despite Pact having my favorite Protagonist, and Worm having the more interesting ability dynamics, Twig I feel has the most fun exploring the ramifications of it's altered history.

Feel free to give them a read and pop-over to /r/Parahumans to do fan stuff or even meet Wildbow in chat: https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/
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Re: The Works of John C. McCrae, AKA, Wildbow

Postby FaceTheCitizen » Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:50 pm

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Re: The Works of John C. McCrae, AKA, Wildbow

Postby Ridtom » Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:29 am

I do reccomend taking a break between each of them though. Things get heavy and you might burn out going right after another.
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Re: The Works of John C. McCrae, AKA, Wildbow

Postby Piter Lauchy » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:55 am

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Re: The Works of John C. McCrae, AKA, Wildbow

Postby Ridtom » Sat Nov 12, 2016 6:56 pm

Piter Lauchy wrote:Holy shit, Voldemort is a TCS member?

I don't know who this Voldemort guy is, but it sounds like he has an eleven-pack.
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Re: The Works of John C. McCrae, AKA, Wildbow

Postby Krashlia » Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:46 pm

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