'Shells'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I'm not sure I'd really mind if someone made money off fanart of my characters. It's not something I could do anyway, so more power to them?
Copyright laws have pretty much taken care of using someone else's characters in a big traditional publishing way. It's just the idea that rankles, I guess.
I'm currently reading a mystery set in 1905 that has some scenes that feel an awful lot like Criminal Minds fic. Makes me wonder....
What is it? I love historical mystery.
It's called In the Shadow of Gotham. It's just OK -- most of the stuff bugging me is stuff like this profiling (really, 1905?) and people talking about why a woman would have trouble getting an academic job in math -- like that needs to be discussed in 1905??
There's a published Original Series Star Trek novel that's fairly clearly set in the world of a 70s TV show called "Here Come The Brides." I remember reading it and thinking, "I know these people."
I remember reading it and thinking, "I know these people."
Yeah, that one's an open secret. If I recall the story correctly, Hambly sort of tried to get permission but there really wasn't anyone around who still held the rights to it, so she fudged it a bit and just went forward.
I doubt Paramount would approve it now: they've gotten a lot more gun-shy.
Also: it's also a crossover with half a dozen other properties, if you read it carefully. Doctor Who, at the very least, although I don't remember the rest. Dana probably knows.
I don't know offhand other than Here Come the Brides. Great book, though. It's called "Ishmael."
Hambly, that's right. I was trying to remember why I read it.
Oh, I remember that one!
She's got a couple of other classic Trek books that are also good.