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celisnebula

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:31 am

Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 312 Location: USA

I actually paid for fan fiction the other day.

I've always adored the book "Little Women," since I was a teenager, and while I was at Barns and Noble I saw a book simply called "March" on the shelf. It's the story of Mr. March, the father of the 4 girls in Little Women, and its by Geraldine Brooks, so far it's good, but I've only had a chance to read the first chapter.

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mouseII

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:22 am

Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 76

That's a weird thought; just wait fifty years after JKR dies, and you'll be able to publish your HP fanfiction and make money...well, probably not, but it won't be illegal to try anymore.

Hmm. We only have to wait until 2023 for Tolkien fanfic to be legal to publish. Most of us will live to see that. Do you think anyone will try it?

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celisnebula

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:50 pm

Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 312 Location: USA

Probably not.

Though you never know, I mean look at Wide Sargrasso Sea by Jean Rhys, it's technically Jane Eyre fan fiction, and Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley which is supposed to be the sequel to Gone with the Wind.

Who knows, maybe JK will let there be offical novels created in the said Magical World when she's done with the final book -- although its not likely (a good dream though).

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Elisabeth

Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 11:53 pm

Joined: 27 Feb 2006 Posts: 8 Location: U.S. (NJ)

celisnebula wrote:

look at Wide Sargrasso Sea by Jean Rhys, it's technically Jane Eyre fan fiction, and Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley.

"Scarlett" was officially permitted by Margaret Mitchell's literary executors -- Ripley was their hand-picked choice to write the sequel. So that sort of blessing can happen.

A literary fanfic I like is "Foe" by J.M. Coetzee, which imagines a female shipwreck survivor washed up on Robinson Crusoe's island. And Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is a brilliant twist and expansion upon "Hamlet".

There's also all those Jane Austen sequels and mysteries and whatever else, but I have to admit I haven't been tempted to read any of them.

Pennfana

Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 5:09 pm

Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 216 Location: Ontario, Canada

Laurie R. King has written a pretty good series of books featuring Sherlock Holmes, starting with The Beekeeper's Apprentice.

By the way, I also like"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead"; Stoppard also wrote the screenplay for the film starring Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, and though it deviates (only slightly) from his original play, it's no less brilliant.

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thegreatsporkwielder

Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:13 am

Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Leading my Spork Army to World Domination

Bumping!

I must say, I didn't really care much for Scarlett. I dunno...

The only published fanfic other than Scarlett that I've read is Phantom by Susan Kay, which is (obviously) a Phantom of the Opera fanfic. I actually quite like it, but the ending is one only a fanficcer would write. It's also very hard to find, since it's been out of print for years. But supposedly they're doing a reprint of it.

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern"=hilarity.

Overhill

Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:16 am

Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 263 Location: Central Oregon, near a wyer, but the dragons are downstairs....

The whole universes of Star Trek and Star Wars books are authorized fan fictions.

(That there are two galaxies peopled with Mary Sues and Gary Stus boggles the mind....)

"Black Water" by Carol Joyce Oates was a (then) short story I read in a magazine while waiting in a grocery store. Another magazine had an exert of Scarlett. Compared to the first, the second was a waste of time and paper.

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thegreatsporkwielder

Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:23 pm

Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Leading my Spork Army to World Domination

Oh my word! I completely forgot about Star Trek books!! My mom was quite the Trekkie, so we have at least 50 Star Trek books wandering around my house, and I've read just about all of them.

Overhill

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:15 am

Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 263 Location: Central Oregon, near a wyer, but the dragons are downstairs....

I used to read the Star Trek novels, and then I ran into one that was written in the first person, and then I read one that Nichelle Nichols was credited for writing, and the two Mary Sues did me in. I did enjoy the parody How Much for Just the Planet, and a Here Comes the Brides television series crossover, a time-travel fic that had Spock meeting his ancestors. I think it was called Ishmael.

The Wizard of Oz books have the original series written by Baum, and then there are the books that were published after being checked over by the Baum Society, or whatever it's called. And now you have Wicked and its sequel.

I should talk, though. The first fan-fic I wrote was decades ago, based on a history book called Castles and Kings, and on the historical character Herne the Hunter. And I scribbled out my share of Star Trek fanfics that was never (and never will be!) published.

thegreatsporkwielder

Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:19 pm

Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Leading my Spork Army to World Domination

Yay for Wicked!

I read How Much for Just the Planet! And Ishmael! I also liked Strangers From the Sky. It was a time-travel one.

The only fanfic I have ever dared to write was a Phantom of the Opera one. It is such a Mary Sue that I try not to think of it anymore. I've also written a Lord of the Rings one making fun of Legolas for a message board that I belong to, where we all think Orlando Bloom and, by default,Legolas, is a girly man who loves his fangirls. So in my fic, Legolas meets his fangirls and they go on these Adventures, where they meet all sorts of random people, including Lockhart, who is a Kindred Spirit. It's really quite silly, but the people on the message board enjoy it. Smile

Overhill

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:08 am

Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 263 Location: Central Oregon, near a wyer, but the dragons are downstairs....

Lockhart in the land of the LOTR!

Now THERE's something to imagine!

wonga

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:38 am

Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 95 Location: Australia

Lets not forget the travesty that is Rebecca's Tale a sequal to du Maurier's Rebecca.

Rebecca is a kniving witch, not the poor little sacrificial lamb Beauman makes her out to be. And the character rape of the new Mrs DeWinter, aargh!

O.k, I think I feel better now!

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Overhill

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:07 am

Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 263 Location: Central Oregon, near a wyer, but the dragons are downstairs....

There's one that's a "sequel" to Sense and Sensibility, titled Eliza's Daughter. I found it on a table at the library, and still haven't gotten back to it.

Would the movie "The Birds II: Land's End" be considered fan fiction, or corporate greed? I never saw it, but the reviews were awful.

(Sorry you came across that rip-off of Rebecca; it's too bad we can't wash junk like that out of our brains.)

thegreatsporkwielder

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:48 pm

Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 26 Location: Leading my Spork Army to World Domination

I'm scared to go near any Jane Austen sequels, because I don't think I could stand to see somebody murdering her characters.

Overhill

Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:34 pm

Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 263 Location: Central Oregon, near a wyer, but the dragons are downstairs....

I like what has been done with Pride and Prejudice, in movies moving the plot to different cultures and times, Bride and Prejudice being an example. It's not fan fiction, to me anyway, but a compliment (for lack of better word) showing that the themes in it are timeless.

I just hope it doesn't end up as a "jump the shark", as Romeo and Juliet has. ("Gee, our television show needs a little pick-me-up. Hey, I know! Let's have the characters act out Romeo and Juliet!)

But on the subject of R & J, I did get a kick of of a HP fanfic at another site, following the adventures of Montague through the Vanishing Cabinet - the Bloody Baron was always reminiscing about Montague's ancestors and the Draught of Living Death! The ( so far as I've found) only - and well done! - Shakespearian reference to the HP character.

But back to the theme of this post, fan fiction...

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