No, but it's damn satisfying.

I wonder if it would count under the ADA as a "reasonable accomodation" Seska?

Is it fanfic if you go through the book with a red pen?

this is so mean, but I love it.

Didn't Zimmer-Bradley have a relatively thriving fic community? Not that I've thought about it since the web took control, but in 'zines, and the like.

Yes, until, IIRC, some fic writer tried to sue claiming MZB had lifted plot from one of her fics. @@.

relatively thriving fic community?

I ... guess? I know there was one, of course, but I guess I don't know how big a relatively thriving zine community would be. It just seems like it would necessarily be orders of magnitude smaller than the internet-based communities I'm familiar with.

Of course I could be wrong.

MZB had one of those published shared universe constructs. I don't know if it thrives now, but it was probably one of the first communities I was aware of, and I wasn't paying much attention. Certainly the first book-based one.

Yeah, she encouraged people to write in the Darkover universe, a couple of collections got published.

Didn't she run a sort of sci-fi/fantasy writer commune back in the 70s and 80s?

From wikipedia:

Bradley took an active role in science-fiction and fantasy fandom, promoting interaction with professional authors and publishers and making several important contributions to the subculture. In 1966, Bradley became a cofounder of the Society for Creative Anachronism, and is credited with coining the name of that group. In the 1970s, as part of the contemporary wave of enthusiasm for J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, she wrote two short fanfic stories about Arwen and published them in chapbook format; one of them, "The Jewel of Arwen", also appeared in her professional anthology The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (1985), although it was dropped from later reprints.

For many years, Bradley actively encouraged Darkover fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction.

Not sure how that worked out for her.

Bradley was also the editor of the long-running Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which encouraged submissions of fantasy stories featuring original and non-traditional heroines from young and upcoming authors. Although she particularly encouraged young female authors, she was not averse to including males in her anthologies. Mercedes Lackey was just one of many authors who first appeared in the anthologies. She also maintained a large family of writers at her home in Berkeley. Ms Bradley was editing the final Sword and Sorceress manuscript up until the week of her death.

The MZB thing is apparently a lot more complicated than the Official Tale.

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More comments in the entry, but I think this particular thread gets most of it.