From Surgipelago, the Beach Surgery encyclopedia
A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (disambiguation)
Surgipelago uses the full title of the novel as the franchise's canonical name. Adaptations typically abbreviate to Beach Surgery or ACSWTPOTB. For the novel itself, see below.
The following works and concepts share the title or core reference A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight:
The Novel
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (novel)—the 2020 complete work by C. W. Smith, published by Abrachas Publishing. Contains the embedded unfinished story Beach Surgery and the irreparable structural fault known as the glitch.
Adaptations by Medium
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (anime)—serialized adaptation (2021–2024)
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (manga)—ongoing serialization, multiple volumes
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (comics)—English-language comic adaptations
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (films)—disambiguation of film adaptations
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (theatre)—documented stage adaptations
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (opera adaptations)—lyric operas and musical theatre
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (TV series)—serialized television adaptation, status disputed [citation needed]
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (light novel)—Japanese serialization
Related Works by C. W. Smith
- Antinomicity—Smith's 2022 novella; shares thematic continuity
- Their Most August Public Organ—in-progress triptych volume; embedded passages from Beach Surgery
- Pastoral Scanlines—omnibus collecting earlier Beach Surgery material
Concepts
- Beach Surgery (story)—the embedded outline and the glitch
- Surgipelago—this encyclopedia
- Adaptations and impossibility—theoretical framework