(02-07-2025, 04:01 PM)robkelk Wrote: We have a few tropes that touch on the concept ("Narrative Filigree", "Cryptic Background Reference", "Backstory"), but as far as I know there's nothing that exactly matches.
(The timeline that appears in some copies of Heinlein's "Future History" story collections would be another example.)
Hm. Guess I have to throw it on the stack with all the other half-developed trope pages I have piling up.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
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I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....