Continuum Fiction

Okay, I'm putting it out there, a new genre:

Continuum Fiction

I may not be the first to write it, but I'm probably the first to name it.  New genres eventually get created to cover new types of fiction, and each new division only helps refine and define the expectations for a certain type of story.

Fiction, of course, is at the top.  Fiction is a made-up story.  Great, you like made-up stories, but is Fiction enough of a category to let you know the kind of story you'll be getting?

How about Science Fiction?  Closer, but there's still a wide variety.  And so we come up with categories that refine the classification of story and therefore have a better idea of the type of story we're getting when we see that genre.  Paranormal Romance, Fantasy Adventure and a hundred others that weren't and then were have been created to identify common themes.

And so today I'm officially naming it:

Continuum Fiction

What follows is my working definition, set down here, and I intend to make a Wikipedia article if they'll let me:

Continuum Fiction: any story where at least one character, at some point, recognizes a continuum of existence of self, recalling with certainty having been and acted as various identities in the past, with an awareness of the distinction of self in the present, whether gained through exposure to elements in the story (revelation/epiphany) or with an existing awareness at the story's inception.

Continuum Fiction does not preclude cloning (such as Palpatine in the "Star Wars" universe), genetic streams (such as "Dune"), or mechanical transference, such as the computer storage of consciousness that occurs in many sci-fi stories.  However, to be true Continuum Fiction the actual individual, the true identity, the soul, the spirit -- however you define it, the person themselves, the real person and who they truly are, not a body, not a brain, not synapses or neurons or genetic copies; a true reincarnation/continuation -- must transit to a new awareness, body, etc.

And that's Continuum Fiction.

"Star Angel" fits this definition.  Another series I wrote and may revive (badump bump), the "Saga of Ages" series, is Continuum Fiction.  Who knows?  Maybe I can become the master of the genre I made a name for!  :-)

I hereby declare Continuum Fiction a thing.  Others have written it, though not many, and not exactly as defined above.  Continuum Fiction is my small contribution to the literary landscape.

As always, thank you for listening.  :-)

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