Is it really collaborative writing, or fantasy?
Stock characters in Commedia dell'arte Moderately, or potentially ambiguous, this title serves to capture my response to a work of collaborative fiction called The Mongoliad - "a narrative of adventure fiction following the exploits of a small group of fighters and mystics in medieval Europe around the time of the Mongol conquests." So far as one can tell the work was directed by Neal Stephenson , with the support of Greg Bear , Nicole Galland , Mark Teppo . Other collaborators included "filmmakers, computer programmers, graphic artists, martial artists and combat choreographers, video game designers, and a professional editor." "Stephenson gathered a group of martial arts enthusiasts interested in studying historical European swordfighting, and this eventually resulted in some of the members of this group collaborating on a set of stories that would make use of accurate representations of these martial arts." ( wiki ) Initially ...