# Fooey, fooey, oh, baybee, say me gotta go now... *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Jun 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *20 Jun 2001, 11:38* Me: >> I'm not sure what the correct term for this stuff is, but it's >> different from fanfic as known in the world of SF fandom. Wombat: > I don't think so. It's different from the core fanfic of the > early Trek fandom, but everything and everyone gets pulled into > the broader sweeps of fanfic. Wellll, as I said, I sort of come from a mid-'70s headset about all this stuff. Been there, wrote the story, sold it to Forry. > I'm trying to think of the most appalling possible New Sun > fanfic. Father Inire and the mandrake? Little Severian and > Typhon? Thecla and an avern? The Green Man and Master Ash > could actually be pretty cool. Howzabout "Journeyman Torturer Mary Sue?" Smarter than Severian, prettier than Barbatus, stronger than Baldanders, gets to torture them all... --Blatt!d *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---