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The Long Song is a three-part BBC television serial, which is an adaptation of Andrea Levy's 2010 historical novel of the same name. Produced by Heyday Television , its three episodes were adapted by Sarah Williams and directed by Mahalia Belo .
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009 and continues to be in beta. [2]
Xing Li, a software developer from Alhambra, California, created FanFiction.Net in 1998. [3] Initially made by Xing Li as a school project, the site was created as a not-for-profit repository for fan-created stories that revolved around characters from popular literature, films, television, anime, and video games. [4]
The Long Song was a finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. [6] It was the recipient of the 2011 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction, [7] [8] [9] with the judging panel saying that "Andrea Levy brings to this story such personal understanding and imaginative depth that her characters leap from the page, with all the resilience, humour and complexity of real people.
The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...
All the Young Dudes is the most viewed piece of fan fiction on AO3, with over 16,000,000 hits. [18] The story has been listed at number one on AO3's "Top of all Fics". [ 19 ] In addition, the story is the top Harry Potter fan-fiction on the site and has become an influence for other "Wolfstar" stories. [ 19 ]
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (2004) is an English language anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories by African, Asian, South Asian, and Indigenous authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour, [1] edited by the writer Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan.
A Brightness Long Ago is a historical fantasy novel [1] by Canadian writer Guy Gavriel Kay published in 2019 by Viking Press. [2] It is inspired from the events of 15th-century Italy leading to the Italian Wars , [ 2 ] and particularly the feud between Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta .