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Why do historians still write about WW II, the Napoleonic era and the American Civil War, when there are thousands of books already written and very little new territory to cover?
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There is of course a difference between books about or set in a historical period and books set in a fictional universe.
It's not like every western ever written is set in the same universe as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly or Lonesome Dove.
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Why are people so obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and why do so many people write in the Sherlock Holmes universe? It's not just SF&F fans.
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I'm aware it's not only SF&F. The Sherlock and Jane Austen continuations and the sequels to Gone With the Wind are all the same to me.
Hey, enjoy what you want to enjoy. I'll confess that I picked up the Karen Traviss Republic Commando Star Wars books
But I've always felt like fandom's habit of investing too much time into fictional universes and arguing about what is canon feels a little weird to me.