The novels and
stories in the Bonaventure-Carmody sequence feature a large extended
family of explorers and adventurers, the Bonaventure-Carmody clan.
Documented in the pages of Cybermancy Incorporated, Here,
There & Everywhere, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, and Set
the Seas on Fire, the family includes time-traveler Roxanne
Bonaventure, Victorian explorer Peter R. Bonaventure, officer in
Nelson’s navy and time-lost adventurer Hieronymus Bonaventure, WWI-era
aviator Jules Bonaventure, jungle lord Lord Arthur Carmody, secret agent
Diana Bonaventure, and research magician Jon Bonaventure Carmody, among
many others.
"Roberson is developing a literary cosmology well worth further
exploration."
Michael Berry, San Francisco Chronicle
The notion of an
extended family of adventurers and explorers is one I initially
encountered in the works of Philip José Farmer, and in particular in his
Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. The idea that different sorts
of fictional
characters might inhabit the same world, might in fact hang from the
branches of one enormous family tree, was one that stuck with me through
the years.
After Farmer, I
also found inspiration in the work of three other writers: the von
Bek-Beck-Begg stories of Michael Moorcock, in particular those in the
collection Fabulous Harbors; Alan Moore’s
pastiche/homage/commentary Supreme, replicating genre forms while
analyzing and revitalizing them; and the generations-spanning Diogenes
Club stories of Kim Newman, both those with and those without vampires.
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