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Originally Posted by gmw
I didn't think fan-fiction was limited to non-public-domain books?
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It's not, of course. I spoke badly. I should have said something along the lines of, "non-commercial." However,
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especially if you allow that the term "fan-fiction" need carry no inherently derogatory associations.
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Well, now you've lost me.
I personally find fan-fiction to be a dismissive term and use it as such myself (most recently for Margaret Atwood's
The Testaments. I think my phrase was "YA fan-fiction" at that.) My own perspective is that if people want to write fan-fiction, that's fine, but I certainly don't want to read it. So in the context of a serious recommendation of a book that's been widely lauded, I take it as "fightin' words," or at least the opening lob in what is likely to be a contentious discussion. Nothing wrong with that.