Is it true that an author can only create one fantasy world?

[Sarandon]

So Stephen King might well be an example of an author who's created just one fantasy world (multiverse)?

I've read a lot of his books, The Dark Tower series being my favorite, and the continued graphic novel stories are great too! However there are a lot of Stephen King novels that I haven't read, so I wasn't sure if there might not be one or two that are completely different from the rest and remain unconnected.

Though as far as I know, you're dead on. They ALL fit together. They ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*]

Sarandon wrote: "So Stephen King might well be an example of an author who's created just one fantasy world (multiverse)? "

I'd say both yes and no. King created many, many individual worlds but only one multiverse - but this has to be the case when interconnecting (else how would they connect?). IIRC, only certain characters can "cross over" into the other realities: A few characters in DT and Flagg.

When I think about it a little longer, IDK if you can say someone who's created a complex multiverse has "only created one." By nature a multiverse would include all universes. Is there a way to have multiple multiverses?

[AndrewP]

Michael Moorcock also did this. The majority of his books are all linked into a multiverse and some of the characters occasionally cross the boundaries.
There is one memorable scene where three version of the Eternal Champion are on a boat together. This same scene is repeated in three different series only told from a different point of view in each.

[Trike]

I would submit to you that Stephen King didn't create any of his fictional worlds. He merely plucked them from the ether as he wandered... The Twilight Zone.

See, that's cos King stole all that stuff from Rod Serling. Yes, even Christine. Even The Dead Zone.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*]

Trike wrote: "I would submit to you that Stephen King didn't create any of his fictional worlds. He merely plucked them from the ether as he wandered... The Twilight Zone.

See, that's cos King stole all that st..."

I couldn't watch the Twilight Zone - I'm too chicken for that, lol.

So can't really argue that point. I do know the Dark Tower was inspired by Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came and it does has a lot of the elements of that wonderful, terrible poem. And a lot not, of course. I haven't read past book 4 (I'm one of the 10 year hiatus casualties) though I own all of them. My knowledge of the poem gives me a good idea as towards the ending. I'll eventually get back to the series once my bitterness is done.