Fanfiction

[Mark Mandel]

Many of my friends write it, so I frequently see mentions and discussion,
but they usually use the shorter form "fanfic".

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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Jeff Prucher <jprucher at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Brave New Words takes it back to 1939 in Wilson "Bob" Tucker's fanzine "Le
> Zombie" (online here: http://www.midamericon.org/tucker/lez11b.htm),
> although in that use it's specifically referring to fan vs. professional
> quality, rather than amateur writing in the setting of another's work, which
> is what people mostly mean nowadays.  There's another, largely obsolete
> sense of "fan fiction" as well, which is (amateur) fiction written about SF
> fans, which I can only date back to the 1944 Fancyclopedia, but which is
> clearly older, and may predate the other sense (it's been html-ized here:
> http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_I/f1.html#8,
> although the keying is not especially trustworthy).
>
> Jeff Prucher
>
>
>
>
> > From: victor steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>
>
> > The OED has citations going back to 1944 Fancyclopedia
>
> VS-)
>
> On Wed,
> > May 19, 2010 at 4:14 PM, victor steinbok <
> > ymailto="mailto:aardvark66 at gmail.com"
> > href="mailto:aardvark66 at gmail.com">aardvark66 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > A follow up on "fanboy". Several law blogs got into a
> > discussion of
> > "fan fiction". There is already a Wiki
> > entry:
> >
> >> Fan fiction (alternately referred to as fanfiction,
> > fanfic, FF, or fic) is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding
> stories
> > about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather
> than
> > by the original creator. Works of fan fiction are rarely commissioned or
> > authorized by the original work's owner, creator, or publisher; also,
> they are
> > almost never professionally published. Fan fiction, therefore, is defined
> by
> > being both related to its subject's canonical fictional universe and
> > simultaneously existing outside the canon of that universe.
> >
> >
> > VS-)
>
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