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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I really have no relevant thoughts one way or the other. I'm pretty meh about the whole thing.
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So, um, you're posting in this thread because ... ?
ardeegee, the Star Trek spin-off books by Timothy Zahn are pretty good. But that's because he's Timothy Zahn; you're all too right about the ones by random people who seem to have been selected on the basis of being willing to do work for hire and to write someone else's stories. I've read
much better Star Wars fanfic.
I think if I were doing some kind of continuation to an existing series, I wouldn't go to Hollywood scriptwriters who know how to write a script but, clearly, not a bloody thing about canon. I'd buy stories from the best fanfic writers and hire a scriptwriter to make them filmable. That way, I'd at least know I was getting stories written by people who both love and
know the material, rather than people who already have a story they want to see on the screen, and they'll change the names to the ones I want while leaving the story exactly the same. It still might not bring in the crowds, but at least the ones it does bring in won't be screaming in agony and telling everyone that the writer obviously had no clue what he was doing.