Origins of Fanfic

[rainy_lilac at yahoo.com]

I was a "Sherlockian" long before I became an HP fan. 

I grew up on Sherock Holmes FanFic (which we called "pastiches") much 
of which was published by mainstream houses. One in particular, "The 
Seven Percent Solution" by Nicholas Meyer, became a bestseller and a 
popular film in the seventies. Shortly after that, Sherlock Holmes 
became public domain, and fan fiction became quite the hot thing.

Sooooo... I wouldn't assume that PoU is only going to have an internet 
audience. Who knows what the future may hold? If the audience is wide 
enough....

--Suzanne 



--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., lady.nymphaea at f... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rosmerta" <tmayor at m...> wrote:
> > ::looking around a little shyly; this is my first OT foray:: 
> > 
> > Any one of the apparently many for/against fanfic people willing 
to 
> > offer up a definitive (or failing that, speculative) but 
apolitical 
> > precie on the origins of fanfic? I'm just assuming it's a Net-
> driven 
> > phenomenon (or message-board driven, for those who remember pre-
> > Internet PC communication) but perhaps not? And no, I'm not 
> counting 
> > the Aeneid here (as someone suggested on the main list); I think 
we 
> > all know we're talking about something a little different.
> 
> It certainly isn't Net-driven; people have been writing Star Trek 
> fanfic, for example, since the original series was out. Back then 
and 
> even to this day, it was put out in paper self-published fanzines.
> 
> When I was in high school, one of my friends was working on an epic 
> Star Trek fic. This was back in 1992 or so. It got passed around our 
> group of friends a bit, but I don't know if she had put it into a 
> zine or not.
> 
> Since I'm no expert on the history of fandom/fanfiction, I'll let 
> some more informed people reply to that. The above is just my 
> experience with fanfiction before I had even owned a computer.