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Are there any books that are written by like... Teams of people?
Books are the only entertainment medium that is entirely dominated by individual authors and hasn't turned into something where whole teams of writers work on a project. I guess the editor usually has a bit of input but still.
It also seems considerably better off for it, as a medium.
I know that Wheel of Time was handed over by Robert Jordan to Brandon Sanderson, because he was dying. It can be very jarring to suddenly see a change in writing style.
Maybe that's how historians of literature feel when they detect forgeries or misattributions.
I think maybe it would make more sense to have authors write individual stories and contribute to a shared setting. Not like spin-offs and fandoms, but like open source contribution I guess.
Yeah in a way I guess super hero comic shared universes are kind of already this.
I had this idea for one of my novels. It's this absolute playground of a setting where, in essence,
s have full reign over character customization in an MMO in the halted-dystopia future. I have the POV characters with entirely different plots so there's infinite stories you could tell. If grimbo the goblin gets a cult following, then another author could write about their goblin-y adventures and it could contribute to the same world.
That's sort of how the Warhammer and Warhammer 40k novels worked. I think that's what they did with the Star Wars novels that are no longer canon. You end up with a couple good books and a lot of slop.