looking for the largest story, does anyone know
Go to https://storiesonline.net/library/searchf.php
fill out NO option except the very bottom, and sort by size > descending.
That will show you the largest stories.
the largest story,
22040 KB Six Times A Day by Spacer X
18671 KB Deja Vu Ascendancy by AscendingAuthor
Literally nothing. The system calculates the text size without the links even. So that number is pure text.
I wonder how much of 6TaD's size is due to the illustrations?
I wonder why it took so long to discover the answer to life, the universe and everything is sex 6 times a day every week...
I wonder why it took so long to discover the answer to life, the universe and everything is sex 6 times a day every week...
Men are from Mars but women are from Venus, where each day is 116 Earth-days long. So, for women, sex 6 times a day means every 19 or so Earth-days.
AJ
Men are from Mars but women are from Venus, where each day is 116 Earth-days long. So, for women, sex 6 times a day means every 19 or so Earth-days.
More telling is the relative ages.
30 year old woman is 48.765 old on Venus
30 year old man is 15.951 on mars
Explains a lot... :)
22040 KB Six Times A Day by Spacer X
If you count stories divided into multiple discrete books, according to my rough estimate there's a story about someone living at the bottom of a deep hole that's about twice that length - A Well-Lived Life by Michael Loucks ;)
AJ
If you count stories divided into multiple discrete books, according to my rough estimate there's a story about someone living at the bottom of a deep hole that's about twice that length - A Well-Lived Life by Michael Loucks ;)
Currently at 7.5 million posted words with another 600K coming in January. If you add in the other series in the universe, Good Medicine, that'll give you another 900K words posted with 500K coming in October.
Add in other stuff which isn't ready to be posted, and we're at about 10 million words.
Given that the average novel-page contains some 275 words, that means we are talking about some 36363 pages, give or take a few.
Also, in comparison, the Bible (King James verison) has some 780k words, Tolstoy's War and Peace 580k, the complete Harry Potter series clocks in at a bit over 1m and finally the Wheel of Time series ups that to 4.4m words.
Looking further, you might want to get in contect with guiness world records, they list the "longest novel" as Rememberance of things past with 9.6m characters or 1.5m words. The longest single work I could find anything about is the Blah Story, but even that are just a measly 3.2m words.
Looking further, you might want to get in contect with guiness world records, they list the "longest novel" as Rememberance of things past with 9.6m characters or 1.5m words.
Wikipedia has a list of the longest novels ever published through a traditional publisher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_novels
The longest on their list is Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus at 1.95M words.
And they list 3 others longer than the one listed by Guiness.
The longest on their list is Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus at 1.95M words.
If it's written in French, an English translation would probably come in at between half and two-thirds of that wordcount.
AJ
Looking further, you might want to get in contect with guiness world records, they list the "longest novel" as Rememberance of things past with 9.6m characters or 1.5m words.
Wouldn't mine qualify more as a series? Granted, I divided it up for ease of use, but that's how it's published. I wonder....
You may have intended it as a series, but in my reader's mind, it's a single story broken into parts. It's mostly a very long autobiography of the main character, and it takes more than one "book" in the "series" to finish the autobiography. To me, as a reader, that's one story.
Even when it comes to series (for example, Wheel of Time) you are quite ahead. Google spits out the discworld-novels as longest novel series, with another, only slightly shorter series on rank2, with a length of ~15500 pages or, by the above mentioned average of 275 words per novel-pqge, some 4.something million words.
So, even then, woefully short.
Also, how could you publish it without breaking it up? I mean, a hardcover novel has some 4pounds per 500k words (google, again) so your 10m would clock in at about 80 pounds of paper. Gives "heavy literature" a whole new meaning...
Gives "heavy literature" a whole new meaning...
In single books it would need more shelf space than an encyclopedia. You could draw a nice wide picture with the spines :D
If we are doing Series, the longest would be Perry Rhodan.
It has 3000 novels and 150 Million word count (last official number from 2001 with 2100 novels, so should be above 200 Million words now)
If we are doing Series, the longest would be Perry Rhodan
I believe there have been multiple (numerous?) authors of that series...I wonder what the single highest output might be.
hmm, dunno. Perry Rhodan is published since the 60's and had dozens of authors. But it is a continuous story.