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kodayu · Last edited by kodayu on Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:19 am; edited 17 times in total

Hi!

I made a ranking, searching the largest furry story series currently online, gathering information on as many furry story series as I could find...

First a big apology to Katayamma-san!
"Identity Crisis" is no longer the largest furry story series out there as I had to add "Thorhammer" which took the top position by storm when I evaluated it lateron (now even the name of this thread is no longer right, damn...). I apologize for this! I simply wasn't aware of "Thorhammer's" existence up to now (see discussion below).

One more apology to Hikaru Katayamma (seems to get a habit of me). I missed out Kittiara's VCL archive and did not take all of the stories into account...
Due to the addition of "The journal entries..." IC has now even been pushed to the fourth position now...

Nevertheless Katayamma-san's opus magnum "Identity Crisis" is still one of the largest furry story series right now! And that merits my honest admiration! Congratulations!

So here is the all newly updated Top 25!
(version 0.4, June 3rd 2005)

]1. The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik
8.114.188 bytes (+468.925 bytes)
Author: Elf Sternberg
Website: http://www.drizzle.com/~elf/journals/
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure
Warning: Yiff
Content: The story of Kennet R'yal Shardik, a man larger-than-life, spanning time, space and almost every possible kink...

2. Tanj/ Trouble's tales
6.844.873 bytes (-)
Author: Kittiara
Website: http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Authors/Kittiara/
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure
Warning: Yiff (BDSM)
Content: The young Cheetah-Morph Tanj (aka Trouble) is sold into slavery and becomes a lions' sex-slave who is a major leader of the Space Pirates fighting a corrupt regime...

3.Thorhammer
5.478.288 bytes (-)
Author: Ian Schue
Website: http://www.furlisophical.net/
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure
Content: The wolf Tenkin and his crew join forces with Redhawk, the most-feared bounty hunter of the universe for a story of (truly) epic proportions...

4. Identity Crisis
3.694.802 bytes (+97.908 bytes)
Author: Hikaru Katayamma
Website: http://www.ic-stories.com/
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Fantasy, Slice-of-life, ...?
Content: By magic forces, an ordinary man is thrown into a fantasy world and then... things get rather complicated!

5. A fox in the works
3.597.136 bytes (+134.193 bytes)
Author: Fox Cutter
Website: http://www.chaos-keep.com/AFiW.html
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Adventure
Content: Fox Cutter travels through the multi-verse with a sexy lioness brothel owner as a sidekick...

6. Wulf
3.321.912 bytes (-)
Author: Anthony Pryor
Website: http://www.wulfarchives.com/
Status: Finished
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Warning: Yiff
Content: High fantasy and high romance! The adventures of Wulf, courageous fighter and notorious heartbraker

7. Spoontoon Tales- Extracts from a Diary
2.576.273 bytes (+115.317 bytes)
Author: Simon Barber
Website: http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Authors/Simon-Barber/
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Slice-of-life, Historic, Teenage Drama
Content: The young Amelia Bourne-Phipps is send to the Songmark Aeronautical Boarding School For Young Ladies on Spontoon East. She keeps a diary of her life on the far away island.

8. The Wilderhom Triology
2.561.747 bytes (+389.259 bytes)
Author: Cirrel
Website: http://www.wilderhom.com/
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Adventure
Content: The human Jayson is capable to send his mind to the most distant locations. But as his powers grow, so do the challenges he has to face...

9.Blue Horizon
2.492.893 bytes (-)
Author: Ted Blasingame
Website: http://horizon.dennier.com/htm/library.html
Status: Finished
Genre: Sci.Fi, Adventure
Content: Do I have to say anything about this? The adventures of the Space-freighter „Blue Horizon“ and its crew

10. Zig Zag- the Story
2.360.881 bytes (+13.419 bytes)
Author: James Bruner
Website: http://www.zzstudios.com/ZZtS/chapters.php
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Slice of life (?), Romance, Drama
Content: Don't we all know her? The story of everyone's favorite tiger stripped skunk...

11. The Chosen few & The Darkness beneath
2.171.719 bytes (-)
Author: Paul S. Gibbs
Website: http://www.sahaaran.com
Status: Finished
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure
Content: The struggles of Lieutenant Ehm'ayla on the spaceship Zelazny, trying to make a career among a hostile crew.

12. Tale of two Sabrinas/ Sabrina Squared/ Sabrina Cubed/Sabrina (4)
2.032.662 bytes (+35981 bytes)
Author: Mark (Cheetaur) White
Website: http://www.raccoons-bookshelf.com/Site/stories_sb_1.html
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Slice-of-Life
Content: Sabrina meets... Sabrina!? How a life can change when you meet your twin you didn't know about...

13. Gone Wylde
1.942.118 bytes (-)
Author: Clint McInnes
Website: http://www.planetfurry.com/%7Eclintmcinnes/
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Slice of Life, Drama
Content: When Wendy April Vixxen Wylde inherits the old house of her deceased uncle, problems ensue she never even dared to dream of.

14. From Depths to heights
1.873.120 bytes (+56.883 bytes)
From Depths to Heights
Author: Shirh Khan
Website: http://www.geocities.com/shirhkhan74/AllThingsFurry.html
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Drama, Slice of life
Warning: Mature Content
Content: The various entaglements of the personal of a hospital

15. The beginning of dreams & Breaking into the Light
1.873.120 bytes (+160.198 bytes)
Author: Ed Garner
Website: http://www.geocities.com/saiakferr/
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure
Content: The adventure of the feline crew of the spaceship S'Suran and their fight against the enemies of their homeworld.

16. Companions
1.744.951 bytes (-)
Author: Evoquus
Website: http://www.yiffstar.com/index.php?pid=868
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Warning: Yiff
Content: An ordinary man becomes the companion of a supernatural stallion and finally becomes a horse himself

17. Otherworlds
1.744.951 bytes (+40.699 bytes)
Author: Pflarrian Collifox
Website: http://www.raccoons-bookshelf.com/Site/Non_SV_Shelf_1/Non%20SV%20Shelf%201%20Pflarrian.html
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Content: The story of Pflarrian Collifox, a young part-human, that between Gods, dragons, an interdimensional assassin and accidental shapeshifting turns out to be much bigger than one would have expected.

18. Light on Shattered Water
1.718.351 bytes (-)
Author: Greg Howell
Website: http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~howellg/
Status: Finished
Genre: Drama
Content: In the Middle of Nowhere, a man finds a village inhabitated by cat creatures and soon has to realize that he lost himself in an utterly different world...

19. Taj
1.370.366 bytes (-)
Author: jonwI
Website: http://www.furnation.com/JonwI/main.html
Status: Finished (?)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Warning: Yiff
Content: As every adult male of the Lion-folk, the young Taj is cast out by the end of his youth and he embark on a journey of adventures

20. Human Memoirs
1.294.681 bytes (-)
Author: Greg Howell
Website: http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~howellg/
Status: Finished
Genre: Drama
Content: A human soldier is catapulted into a word where evolution took a very different turn. Alone in this new world, there is only one person who calls him friend, and she is far from human.

21.Migratory Birds
1.284.929 (+145.261 bytes)
Author: Kodayu
Website: http://www.furry.org.au/kodayu
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Warning: Yiff
Content: The travels of the lynx girl Jiddy who is on the run from herself and unwillingly turns other peoples' lifes upside down.

22. Anthropomorphic Foxes in Space
1.231.167 bytes (-)
Author: Otrstf
Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~otrstf/stories
Status: Finished (?)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Humor
Content: Kidnapped by vulpine aliens, Marie dies by an accident. The aliens decide that it might be better to revive her in body of their own. At least they take her and her husband into space...

23. Forest Tales
1.226.033 bytes (-)
Author: Bernard Doove
Website: http://www.furry.org.au/chakat/FT-index.html
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Sci-Fi-Slice-of-Life (if there's such a thing)
Content: One of the many Bernard Doove's stories about the chakats. This one is the longest of them, telling the story of Forestwalker and hir extended family

23. Road Runner
1.155.038 bytes (-)
Author: Simon Barber
Website: http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Authors/Simon-Barber/
Status: Finished
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Senseless Violence
Content: Hijinks with Monsters, Tanks, Bombs, Anime Girls and a spaceship with a Bachman-Turner Overdrive...

25. Sabrina- The story
1.017.282 bytes (-)
Author: Chris Foxx
Website: http://www.ChrisFoxx.com
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Drama, Slice-of-Life
Content: Sabrina! Do I have to say more?

(no longer listing story series short than 1 MB)
I applied the following rules to get this result: The story had to be online right now, it had to be the creation of a single writer (meaning: no anthologies such as the "Blind Pig") and it had to have an ongoing storyline (not just a short story collection). I downloaded the various formats and saved them as ASCII txt and summed up the stories' files' sizes (the specific sizes are listed above).

Once again, congratulations to Katayamma-san! Anybody who has ever written something knows what an impressive endeavor such a huge story series is.

Henry_Hound · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:36 am Post subject:

Just a couple corrections.

vladspellbinder

Cirrel · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:06 pm Post subject:

Congratulations Hikaru - Master storyteller. Smile

Just a quick question, however, on file sizes. Hikaru's IC is listed as "3.596.894 kB". That literally translates to 3,596,894,000 bytes or roughly three and one half GIGA-bytes. And this is ascii text? Are you sure the "kb" at the end of the size isnt a typo?

My furry story, the "Wilderhom Trilogy" series, presently stands at 377,000 words and it translates into ascii as only 2,172 kb - or the equivalent of 2.1 MEGA-bytes.
That's an average of 173,573 ascii words per megabyte.

Now assuming Hikaru doesn't, on average, use words that are 100 times larger than mine, his story would need to contain 62.4 MILLION words to be 3.6 Gigabytes in size.

That means he would have to have constantly written at least one word a second - 24 hours a day, 7 days aweek, 365 days a year - for 2 full years. That also means It would probably take the average reader approximately 3 to 6 months - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - just to read it.

Heheh. Hikru is a master typist, (He beats the pants off me when I watch him) but I don't think anyone is that good.

Cirrel

kodayu · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:50 pm Post subject:

Critics! Everyone is a critic... Mad

BTW, Cirrel, I would add your story if I had it in a format I could use. Unfortunately pdf is nifty for reading, but I can't evaluate it... Otherwise I would add your story series.

anthony · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:34 pm Post subject:

What about greg & Angie, found at www.furnation.com/lonecoon or at www.anthrofiction.com

Yeah, I'm just too lazy to round it up...

Also, Furlisophical?
www.furlisophical.net

Blue horizon
http://horizon.dennier.com/htm/library.html

I'm not certain if Paul S. Gibbs' stories fits.
www.sahaaran.com

That should opefully keep you counting words a while longer...
Very Happy

AmigaDragon · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject:

kodayu · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject:

Just to mention it... "Blue Horizon" is already on place 4!
I checked on "Greg and Angie" and it is not even close. (570.021 bytes)
I will try to add "Thorhammer" as soon as I find a way to transform it to txt.
And I will check on Paul S. Gibbs' novels as soon as I can. But keep in mind that one of my rules was the requirement of an ongoing storyline, so only the largest of his novels might actually qualify. We'll see...

D.F. Thompson · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject:

Does anyone even now if Ian is still working on ThorHammer?

AmigaDragon · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 2:59 am Post subject:

Yes, he just added part 2 to season 4 chapter 3 (a 3 parter). in an e-mail, he mentioned something about going to at least season 5.

anthony · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:24 am Post subject:

Actually, Paul's books have the same characters cropping up time after time.

kodayu · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject:

Alright. Credit where credit is due: Cirrel and Paul S. Gibb took their rightful places in the ranking, place 6 and 7.
I decided to count two of Gibbs' novels, because they have the same main character. That's pretty much the same case as Ed Garner's novels. I will not count the other ones though. I do not consider the adventures of the former main character's husband as being part of the same storyline.
Thorhammer will be added next time.
So far, thanks to Cirrel and Anthony for their contributions.

shroom · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject:

Slight corrections on #6 there..

its the wilderhom trillogy (just like the URL)

and Jayson is not a phur, he is human. Kemsa (another 'core' character) is a phur.

Nice list, very interesting!

anthony · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:31 am Post subject:

You know, having a top 15 list kind of snubs all the not so large stories out there... Smile

Why not make it a top 50 list?

Maybe you should talk to one of the admins and get a forum of your own to keep this list and the discussions about it?

And don't forget to tell the authors that they're on the list...

hikaru · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:58 pm Post subject:

We already have a writers forum where a thread (or multiple threads) like this would be perfect.

Cheers