Fooey, fooey, oh, baybee, say me gotta go now...
The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Jun 2001
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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


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