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41 Discworld books now have chapter tracking on OpenFiction - 228 characters, narrative segments, and a glossary

41 Discworld books now have chapter tracking on OpenFiction - 228 characters, narrative segments, and a glossary

OpenFiction now has 41 Discworld novels: browsable narrative segments with summaries and character tracking. Since most Discworld books don't have chapters, we used scene breaks and narrative analysis to create sections - 6 books with actual chapters, 27 with scene-break sections, and 8 with AI-analysed narrative divisions.

321 characters tracked across all sub-series. Recurring characters (Vimes, Granny Weatherwax, Rincewind, Death, Vetinari, Nanny Ogg, the Librarian) are linked across every book they appear in. The glossary covers the Disc itself, Ankh-Morpork, Unseen University, the Patrician, the City Watch, the Witches, Death, the Luggage, narrative causality, the Guilds, and octarine.

The site is free, no ads, community-driven. Would especially welcome Discworld fans helping to enrich the character data - descriptions, relationships, and the like.

u/Traditional_Ad2635 — 4 days ago
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OpenFiction has Full character tracking across all 10 Malazan books - 206 characters, 2,735 appearances, and a 45-entry glossary

All 10 Malazan books now have complete chapter summaries, entity links, and per-chapter character appearances on OpenFiction. 206 characters tracked across 10 books, with all the Malazan-specific species (Tiste Andii, Jaghut, T'lan Imass, etc.) and a 45-entry glossary covering Warrens, the Deck of Dragons, Ascendants, convergence, the Malazan Empire, the Bridgeburners, key locations, and concepts like Dragnipur and the Chain of Dogs.

The spoiler system works at the chapter level - if you've only finished Gardens, character pages won't show Deadhouse Gates reveals. Given how many characters Erikson juggles and how often POVs are abandoned for entire books before returning, this is the kind of series that benefits most from structured tracking.

The character data could always be deeper - Malazan's massive cast and complex POV structure mean there's always more to track. If you're interested in contributing, the site has curator tools for adding characters and appearances.

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u/Traditional_Ad2635 — 4 days ago

Free character database covering all 9 Culture novels - 50 glossary entries, chapter summaries, and character tracking

I've been building OpenFiction, a free character tracking database for fiction. Nine Culture novels now have chapter summaries, character tracking, and a 50-entry glossary covering the Culture civilisation, Contact, Special Circumstances, external species (Idirans, Affront, Chelgrians, Gzilt), technology (Minds, GSVs, effectors, displacement, knife missiles, neural laces, gridfire), and key concepts (Subliming, Outside Context Problems, the Idiran War, Marain).

Each novel's characters are tracked with per-chapter appearances, relationships, and group memberships (The Culture, Special Circumstances, Clear Air Turbulence, etc.). The three non-Culture Banks SF novels (Against a Dark Background, Feersum Endjinn, The Algebraist) are also covered.

It's spoiler-filtered based on reading progress - if you're working through the series and don't want later-book reveals on character pages, it handles that.

Free, no ads, open for contributions. The descriptions were written to capture what makes each novel distinctive without spoiling outcomes.

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(Mods – happy to remove if this isn't appropriate for the sub.)

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u/Traditional_Ad2635 — 4 days ago

A free character database that covers the Dark Tower - 91 glossary entries, chapter tracking across all 8 books

OpenFiction is a free character tracking site I've been building, and the Dark Tower universe now has a 91-entry glossary covering Mid-World geography, ka concepts (ka-tet, the Beams, todash, the Prim, khef), key locations, groups (gunslingers, the Manni, the Wolves), objects (the Sandalwood Guns, Black Thirteen, the Horn of Eld), and High Speech terms.

Books 1-4 (The Gunslinger through Wizard and Glass) have full chapter summaries with character tracking. The whole thing is spoiler-filtered - if you're on The Waste Lands, character pages won't show you Wizard and Glass reveals.

The site is free, no ads, community-driven. Would love help from Dark Tower fans with the remaining books if anyone's interested in contributing.

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(If this kind of post isn't allowed, let me know and I'll take it down.)

u/Traditional_Ad2635 — 4 days ago