Wold Newton is a small Yorkshire Wolds village in the East Riding of Yorkshire. On the 13th of December 1795 a meteorite crashed on the outskirts of the village. As a monument to this event there is a brick column bearing the inscription The Yorkshire Wolds are an area of low hills and valleys in the East Riding of Yorkshire in North-Eastern England. ... The East Riding of Yorkshire is a local government district in the United Kingdom. ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Wold Newton meteorite fell at 3 p. ...

Here on this spot, December 13, 1795 fell from the atmosphere an extraordinary stone.

In breadth twenty-eight inches, in length thirty-six inches and whose weight was fifty-six pounds.

This column in memory of it was erected by Edward Topham, 1799

The American science fiction author Philip José Farmer posited that this event caused genetic mutation in some people who were passing by at the time. Their enhanced genes led to the extraordinary abilities of their descendants, who include: Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, James Bond, Lord Peter Wimsey, Professor Moriarty, Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Kinsey Millhone, Richard Hannay, Charlie Chan, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and John Shaft. 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Philip José Farmer (born January 26, 1918) is an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. ... Tarzan, a character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. ... Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes (1854-) is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Doc Savage Magazine, March 1933 Doc Savage is a fictional character, one of the most enduring pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s. ... Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective created by the prolific American author Rex Stout in the 1930s and featured in dozens of books and short stories (many of which were later collected into books). ... James Bond is best known from the EON Productions film series. ... Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. ... Professor Moriarty, illustration by Sidney Paget which accompanied the original publication of The Final Problem Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character who is the best known antagonist of the detective Sherlock Holmes. ... Philip Marlowe is a fictional private eye created by Raymond Chandler in a series of detective novels including The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. ... Poster of the 1941 Warner Brothers film version of The Maltese Falcon, directed by John Huston Sam Spade was the leading character in the novel and movie The Maltese Falcon (1931). ... Kinsey Milhone (born 5 May, 1950) is a fictional female private investigator created by Sue Grafton, and is the protagonist of Graftons alphabet mysteries series of novels. ... Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by Scottish novelist, John Buchan. ... 1938 titlecard Number One Sons with the seat of his pants on fire (in the film) Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-Hawaiian detective created by Earl Derr Biggers, reportedly in part under inspiration from the career of Chang Apana. ... Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character in the James Bond universe. ... Shaft is a 1971 blaxploitation film which tells the story of a detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. ...

Farmer's extended family of superheros and villains are now known as the Wold Newton family, and the concept has been elaborated upon by many other writers. The Wold Newton family is a literary conceit derived from a form of crossover fiction developed by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer. ...

External Links

• Wold Newton
• Picture of the memorial
• An Expansion of Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe