Fan fic Fooey? Fooey.

Kevin J. Maroney · 20 Jun 2001, 12:14 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at ungames.com>
Subject: RE: (whorl) Fan fic Fooey?  Fooey.
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:14:00
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At 08:40 AM 6/20/01 -0700, Blattid wrote:
> > As a matter of fact, on the website I cited earlier for
> > Pullman fanfic, there is quite a lot of fanfic dealing with
> > real people, namely music groups (the vast majority of it on
> > boy bands: there are over five thousand Nsync fanfics).
>
>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.

I don't think so. It's different from the core fanfic of the early Trek=20
fandom, but everything and everyone gets pulled into the broader sweeps of=20
fanfic.

 >Duh. Should of thought of that one myself. Or maybe
>Silk/Horn, though it would be hard to locate that
>in the received chronology... Maybe Jolenta/Dorcas...

Well, Jolenta/Dorcas is just off-stage, so it would seem obvious....

I'm trying to think of the most appalling possible New Sun fanfic. Father=20
Inire and the mandrake? Little Severian and Typhon? Thecla and an avern?=20
The Green Man and Master Ash could actually be pretty cool.

--=20
Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at ungames.com
Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction
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