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Old 04-28-2025, 09:18 PM   #16
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Aren't they mostly dead?
They weren't in 1999 when the movie was made.
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I wouldn't touch fanfic with a stick...
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Why not?
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Why not?
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.
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I've read a lot of published novels which were fanfic, but none where I didn't know that's what it was from the beginning.

The only one that's typical modern fanfic was a hockey romance where I'd read a review mentioning that it started as a captain America/Bucky Barnes fanfic. I doubt anyone who only knew the films and comics would recognize the inspiration, though. It had several of the fanfic tropes, but a lot of those have moved pretty far away from the original inspiration. It's quite good. (Rachel Reid's Game Changer)

The vast majority of published fanfic I've read have been based on works which are no longer under copyright, so they could state it openly: Sherlock Holmes, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Georgette Heyer, Prisoner of Zenda, HC Andersen, probably more. I'd also put fairy tale and myth retellings in this category. I enjoy seeing different takes on the same story.
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