Infinology – JC Eberdt https://jceberdt.eu Science Fiction and Fantasy Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:15:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://jceberdt.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-droopy01-32x32.png Infinology – JC Eberdt https://jceberdt.eu 32 32 Infinology https://jceberdt.eu/infinology/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:15:26 +0000 https://jceberdt.eu/?p=1200 Continue reading Infinology]]> I’ve wondered sometimes whether I should be limiting my stories to a set number of volumes. Conventional publishing wisdom seems to hold that this is the ‘best practice’. However, when I think of some highly successful series, such as the Wheel of Time, the author has not limited themselves in any such way. Obviously I’ve chosen this as my example, probably because I simply don’t like finished stories. As a TTRPG player, I always wanted the campaign to continue.

You have settings of course, but that doesn’t really cover things like the Wheel of Time either. Iain M. Banks Culture novels share a setting but they aren’t an extended trilogy or anything. So, I’ve decided to coin a new (or new to me at least) term, the ‘Infinology’. Both the Clausewitz Series and the Alagariel Series are intended to be Infinologies. Those infinologies have already inspired (or even required) tales that fit in the same setting (a number of those are mostly finished) but they aren’t part of the Infinology.

I was wondering for long time what to call my two main series, and, I at least, am pleased that I’ve settled on an answer.

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