I'm thinking of starting a new universe which will deal with an alien superintelligence appearing to the people of earth with a doomsday prediction. To combat/stop this event, a team of heroes will be established by him. The powers/abilities he grants each member of the team will be limited to about half what Superman is capable of. This will be a co-operative series of tales and, by that I mean, we will meet regularly to discuss what the heroes do. each writer will have complete autonomy of their hero character, and will determine their actions etc. There will be a STRICT timeline that must be adhered to, so there will be no non-canon stories accepted.

Anyone wishing to participate can contact me with a PM at Top Shelf, or by email at cathy_t_ 99 at yahoo dot com. and I will explain more. If this idea flies, we can meet in either a chat room, or via skype multi chat. I anticipate the end of this series to occur on Dec 20th of this year. The significance of that date should indicate the intent of the series... to take advantage of the supposed END OF THE EARTH on the 21st of December.

I anticipate a need for at least 6 or 7 authors to participate in this, so we can have a varied amount of powers/talents/abilities and so there can be incidents of either co-operation, or dissension/ disagreements like there would be in characters in such a situation in real life.

I have already enlisted one writer, and would like to hear from others. I don't even know if this is going to work with 6 or 7 authors co-operating together, to bering such a story to it's conclusion, but I don't think it's ever been done in exactly the way I envision it.

The Characters. You may design your own characters, with the previously mentioned power limitation stated above. No other author will know who the other characters are, or what their powers are, until circumstances within the story, reveal such facts, one character meeting/finding another hero. Each story section or chapter would be co-written by two or more authors, depending on how many heroes are used in the chapter. If you already have a hero character you think would fit, that can work too, but I would prefer new heroes with new/changed/different powers, since they must be created by the alien.

I will outline the threat to be faced AFTER powers are chosen, to each author separately so no one will have an advantage over the other heroes and will be forced by the circumstances in the story to co-operate with the other heroes in order for the threat to be handled/eliminated.

I know the superhero thing has been done many times, but this would be the first time that there would be a purpose for them to come into being, and at the same time, with different authors controlling their own hero to accomplish a common goal... I think.

So, here is an open invitation.. If you think you could help put this together, contact me. If you think it's a dumb idea, please keep it to yourself! LOL If you don't want to be involved, that's fine, and thank you for reading.

Catherine Linda Michel