The Northern Caves

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Name:	The Northern Caves
Abbreviation(s):
Creator:	nostalgebraist
Date(s):	1 April 2015 - 23 October 2015
Medium:	online at AO3
Country of Origin:
External Links:	on AO3
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The Northern Caves is an original fiction novel by nostalgebraist posted on Archive of Our Own in 2015.

Summary

An online message board devoted to a cult fantasy author wrestles with his baffling final book.

Reactions & Reviews

• Review responding to chapter 9, ^{Archived version} by untiltheseashallfreethem, 2015
• The Northern Caves took over my weekend and now I want to talk about it by landlocked-sea -- login locked
• so i finished reading the northern caves, ^{Archived version} review by flyingcookierambles, 2021

Nostalgebraist commented, ^{Archived version} on his experience with "having a fandom" and the impact of a large number of reviews can have on future creative work, and how it dovetailed with his previous observations about Andrew Hussie's response to the Homestuck fandom.

Fanworks and Related Works

• The Whole Bleak Endless World, ^{Archived version} by Ununnilium, 2015
• A Few Short Vignettes, ^{Archived version} by orphan_account, 2019
• A Thornbush Tale, ^{Archived version} by --Leonard Salby-- (ostrichlittledungeon) , 2022 -- a fan rendering one of the Leonard Salby works mentioned in The Northern Caves
• The Library Unpublished, ^{Archived version} by al_fa, 2017 -- another original work that makes reference to "The Northern Caves" (that is, the fictional Leonard Salby manuscript that the nostalgebraist story is largely about)