we're gonna need a bigger boat

[elz]

I'm working on chapter indexes right now for the AO3, and we got to talking about stories with lots of chapters, which got me looking at ff.net, where I discovered that there are 137 pages of Harry Potter fic of more than 100,000 words. That's a lot of words!

Ten minutes of searching has netted me an HP fic with 181 chapters (it was at 180 a few minutes earlier) and a LOTR fic with 781,467 words (which is the epilogue of a trilogy!).

Now I'm curious - what are the longest stories you've encountered in fandom? What are the longest stories you've actually read?

ETA: 1,036,782 words of Buffy/Faith over three and a half years, with an impressive average of 12,000 words per chapter - that's probably hard to beat. O.O

Comments

[rheanna]

Oklahoma is 170k words? Oh, wow -- I hadn't realised it was THAT long. I read it a long, long time ago, and back then I hadn't gotten used to reading on screen, so I used to print everything out. I remember Oklahoma took up an entire lever-arch file, all by itself. I wonder if either of the authors is still about in fandom; it'd be a shame if they'd both vanished completely.

[elz]

Using my best detective skills: amperage, gooligan

I'd be tempted to reread some of the older stories now, but there's a 110,000 word Star Trek fic to dive into first. *g*