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This year's lecture and musings on fanfiction was triggered by a couple of things. One was a discussion on rec.arts.sf.written on the impending publication of Pride and Prejudice With Zombies.; this thread drew my particular attention because it was titled "Terminators of Endearment ripoff" -- said "Terminators of Endearment" being a cooperative fanfic/homage by Brenda Clough and myself derived from a remark by Eric Flint.
The second was a discovery (by random search and link following) that to my surprise author Lee Goldberg has continued his periodic war against fanfiction. As I hadn't heard anything about him lately, I'd made the assumption that he'd dropped the issue after his first few articles. I was (as you can see from the link) quite mistaken. He's also apparently still blithely oblivious, or in serious denial, over the titanic irony of a man who writes media tie-in novels (translated: paid fanfic) railing against fanfic.
So, once more, I will take on this giant, or windmill as the case may be.
For those who may have come to my blog from other directions, I have credentials to talk on both sides of this debate, as I am a published SF author -- three books currently, three more under contract -- who is also a fairly well-known and regarded writer of fanfic/gamefic.
My published novels (by Baen Books) are Digital Knight, the short novel Diamonds Are Forever in the collection Mountain Magic, and Boundary, co-written with Eric Flint. Forthcoming books are Threshold and Portal(tentative title), sequels to Boundary, and Grand Central Arena, a space opera with a likely publication date of Spring 2010.
My best-known fanfics include the Saint Seiya fics "Resurrection" (in five parts -- Requiem, Rebirth, Ghosts, Awakening, and Meteor), "Wild Card", and "Snow Queen", the LotR/Gamefic "An American Gamer in Gondor", and the aforementioned "Terminators of Endearment, OR Pride and Extreme Prejudice". I have written parts of, or edited, numerous other fanfiction works.
As this will likely be quite a long article (and, depending on how loquacious I become, may even overflow the post limits), I have provided a ( cut for your viewing safety. )
And so I'm done. For now...
The second was a discovery (by random search and link following) that to my surprise author Lee Goldberg has continued his periodic war against fanfiction. As I hadn't heard anything about him lately, I'd made the assumption that he'd dropped the issue after his first few articles. I was (as you can see from the link) quite mistaken. He's also apparently still blithely oblivious, or in serious denial, over the titanic irony of a man who writes media tie-in novels (translated: paid fanfic) railing against fanfic.
So, once more, I will take on this giant, or windmill as the case may be.
For those who may have come to my blog from other directions, I have credentials to talk on both sides of this debate, as I am a published SF author -- three books currently, three more under contract -- who is also a fairly well-known and regarded writer of fanfic/gamefic.
My published novels (by Baen Books) are Digital Knight, the short novel Diamonds Are Forever in the collection Mountain Magic, and Boundary, co-written with Eric Flint. Forthcoming books are Threshold and Portal(tentative title), sequels to Boundary, and Grand Central Arena, a space opera with a likely publication date of Spring 2010.
My best-known fanfics include the Saint Seiya fics "Resurrection" (in five parts -- Requiem, Rebirth, Ghosts, Awakening, and Meteor), "Wild Card", and "Snow Queen", the LotR/Gamefic "An American Gamer in Gondor", and the aforementioned "Terminators of Endearment, OR Pride and Extreme Prejudice". I have written parts of, or edited, numerous other fanfiction works.
As this will likely be quite a long article (and, depending on how loquacious I become, may even overflow the post limits), I have provided a ( cut for your viewing safety. )
And so I'm done. For now...
