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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Why not?
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Not everyone likes fanfic. While I've read a few in my distant past, it's not really my cup of tea. Not because I think the quality is poor (as with self-pubs, I've seen some excellent writers there), but in general I dislike shared universes and prequels/sequels/side books written by other authors than the original one. This is just a quirk of mine. That's why I don't read officially published Star Trek or Star Wars books either. Or sequels/prequels to famous classics written by modern authors. For me, it's the original or nothing.
OTOH, I don't mind genre tropes as such, so I can read books with some similarity in plot/characters/world building happily enough. I just want it to be an original work, at least in some aspects. I wouldn't mind if it had started its life as fanfic, as long as enough original elements were introduced later on.