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Walls-Thumma suggests that these barriers, and the resulting fragmentation of fans into groups that functioned as communities, has helped to create fan fiction writers "who are not only well read but also insightful and critical of Tolkien's texts." [24] Web access has enabled extensive public dialogue between fan fiction creators and other ...
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 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 ...
The web serial form dominates in the category of fan fiction, as writing a serial takes less specialized software and often less time than an ebook. Web-based fiction dates to the earliest days of the World Wide Web , including the extremely popular The Spot (1995–1997), a tale told through characters' journal entries and interactivity with ...
The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century: Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg 2003 What Ifs? of American History: Robert Cowley 2006 Futures Past: Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois: 2009 Other Earths: Nick Gevers and Jay Lake: Columbia & Britannia: Brian A. Dixon and Adam Chamberlain: 2011 Lest Darkness Fall and Related Stories
Fan fiction (commonly abbreviated to "fanfic") is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other dramatic or literary work, ...
These fan fiction stories were later published in official Star Trek books. This concept was also used in an episode of Supernatural , "The French Mistake" ( Season 6 , Episode 15). In the episode, the main characters Sam and Dean are transported to an alternative universe where they are the actual actors, actors named Jared Padalecki and ...