Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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 find Cordelia a bit much, I guess. In Shards of Honor, okay that whole book felt like disguised fanfic to me; and in most of the rest of the books she is sort of a character type, rather than a character. You know, a sarcastic snort and a swoosh of skirts.
In Barrayar, she seemed like a real person.
Why is my brain suddenly popping up the idea that one of the early Barrayar books is fanfic with the serial numbers filed off? Am I making that up, or did I read that somewhere?
You are not making it up, Katie.
Shards of Honor started out as Trekfic, by all accounts.
Ha! Go me.
Shards of Honor started out as Trekfic, by all accounts.
Interesting. Are there other examples of this phenomenon?
I'm sure, David, although I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Well, except for the pal who's rewriting her epic XF novel as a mainstream thriller, and the stalled space opera on my hard drive whose genesis was a Farscape story.
Ellen Kushner's first novel is extremely fanficcy in style, but in an original universe. I want to say there is at least one other Trek novel/series with the bumpy foreheads filed off, but I can't think of it.
Ellen Kushner's first novel
Swordspoint? Yeah, I call it a slash fairy tale.
Is Swordspoint good, or is it fanficcy in a derogatory way?
Mmm, Swordspoint. I didn't like the sequel so much. Too much magic, not enough interaction of people. I loved Swordspoint because it was a fantasy without any of the fantasy elements. Except for it being a different world, where anyone can love whoever they want, it could have been an historical novel.