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Originally Posted by Iphinome
Fanfic can be good stuff. Pride and Prejudice and zombies is fan fiction.
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That's a somewhat different case, in that the source material is in the public domain. There have been some "derivative works" which have become classics in their own right, of course - one good example is Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea", a "prequel" to "Jane Eyre".