Tag: Fan Fiction
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Rewriting History, Robot Writers, and more…
A Horrorshow Find: ‘Clockwork Orange’ Follow-Up Surfaces After Decades Unseen (NPR) So, according to Burgess scholar Andrew Biswell, the novelist got to work on a brief piece, which soon became a big piece, which eventually ballooned to 200 pages. Written under the name The Clockwork Condition, the work was to be a philosophical meditation on […]
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Fan-Fiction at the Hugo Awards and more…
In China, science fiction enjoys an efflorescence (The Hindu) Ironically, it is science fiction — a genre that is often dismissed as the plaything of nerds, geeks, and social misfits — that has actively imagined the consequences of technological changes. For the adherents of realism, or ‘serious literature’, science fiction is the literary equivalent of […]
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Finishing Your Novel, Fan-Fiction, Writing Sex Scenes, and more…
The One Direction Fan-Fiction Novel That Became a Literary Sensation (The Atlantic) Without pausing to proofread, Todd uploaded a chapter a day to Wattpad, a free site that has earned a reputation as the YouTube of ebooks for its success in giving prose the social-media treatment. (Readers can chat with writers and discuss books with one […]
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Fan Fiction, Authors Earning Less, and more…
How free should novelists be to imagine radically different lives? (The Guardian) My new novel may need justifying. Half of it is narrated by Sofia, a 17-year-old girl born in Cairo; I’m a 47-year-old man who has never lived outside the UK. More to the point, the story opens with Sofia arriving in Syria to […]
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To Write Fan Fiction or Not, and more…
A Published Author Told Me To Stop Writing Fan Fiction — But The Lunar Chronicles Author Marissa Meyer Disagrees (Bustle) Undoubtedly this woman meant well — and there is, of course, some truth to her words. Unless you’re the rare exception, à la 50 Shades or After, odds were my Star Wars and Spider-Man fics […]
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Game of Thrones in Post-Apocolyptic Africa, Fan Fiction and Bad TV…
Canadian climate fiction foreboding (Winnipeg Free Press) Cli-Fi is an anthology of speculative fiction stories about climate change, all written from a Canadian perspective and several with strong Indigenous themes. Editor Bruce Meyer explains that the anthology is the result of a challenge by Margaret Atwood in 2015 who, at a discussion around the Al Gore […]
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Sci-Fi Feminist Icons, Fan Fiction, Nnedi Okorafor and more…
Science Fiction’s Under-Appreciated Feminist Icon (The Atlantic) Feminist science fiction has a notable history, but the genre has long been dominated by stories written by, and solely featuring, men. I can’t help but feel awkward reading one of the most celebrated short stories of the genre, Isaac Asimov’s 1941 tale “Nightfall,” which contains no women at […]
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Harry Potter turns 20, Queer South Asian Fiction, and more…
It’s Pride Month, and here are five queer South Asian speculative stories to raise a toast (Scroll.in) The speculative fiction community has progressed right along, and it’s hard to find a science fiction or fantasy story these days that is openly homophobic in its plot or insinuation. And it’s not only the foreign or white […]
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