From Surgipelago, the Beach Surgery encyclopedia
Adaptations by medium
This article organizes adaptations of the Beach Surgery franchise by primary medium. For chronological listing, see Timeline; for episode-specific metadata, see List of episodes; for thematic analysis of how adaptations differ, see Adaptation and impossibility.
Contents
Print & literature
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight – novel (2020, original)
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (manga) – manga series
- The Recurrence Notebook – light novel trilogy
- The Underground Baths (volume) – illustrated novellas
- Rico the Architect (volume) – expanded narrative
- The Wings (volume) – art book with gatefold plates
Screen
- A Complicated Surgery Will Take Place on the Beach Tonight (TV series) – animated series (██ episodes)
- Karman (film) – feature film (2013)
- Against the Spin – experimental short (2015)
- Satellite Voices – web series
- O Procedimento – Brazilian film adaptation (2018)
- Ciclo Rojo – Argentine television adaptation
Stage & performance
- The Karman Reversal (opera) – operatic adaptation (2016)
- Counterclockwise (dance) – choreographed interpretation
- The Bolton Street Walk – site-specific theatre/walking performance
Sound
- Red Meridian (audio series) – audio drama
- The Karman Transmission – ambient/atmospheric soundtrack series
- The Pump and The Drone: A Procedural Suite – instrumental album
- Between Frequencies – podcast / fan analysis
Games & interactive
- Cardiac Pulse (video game) – narrative adventure game
- The Parallel Wires (video game) – two-player story game
- The Reconstruction Protocol (tabletop game) – tabletop RPG system
- Convergence Protocol – board game variant
- The Threshold Cannot Hold – narrative card game
Scholarship & critical
- On the unfinishable: recurrence and the outline form – thesis
- Operational Impossibilities: Surgical Metaphor and the Limits of Narrative Integration in Beach Surgery Across Media – academic paper
- The Wheel Symmetry Hypothesis – fan theory essay
- The Karman Line hypothesis – theoretical framework
- The wings as Icarus motif (essay) – thematic analysis
Real-world & immersive
- Rose House (installation) – architectural installation
- The Sand Garden Walking Project – walking meditation tour
- The Recurrence Clinic – LARP variant
- The Tidal Ward – pop-up exhibition
- The Correction Protocol – immersive experience [citation needed]