[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: AS Byatt - clueless

[Kathryn Cawte]

> > Abigail

> Fanfic has existed, in one form or another, for several decades.  People
> have probably been making up stories with their favorite book/movie/TV
> characters for as long as there have been books, movies and TV.  Written
> fanfic that got passed around from fan to fan had its beginnings in Star
>  Trek fandom back in the 60s and 70s.  Fans used to prints up fanzines,
> containing their own stories.  By the way, it's in these magazines that
the
> self-inserted-author character, Mary Sue, got her name.  A fanfic writer
> named Mary Sue wrote a story about a half-human, half-Vulcan princess
> who had Kirk, Spock and McCoy chasing after her.

K

I know slash fanfic dates as far back as Sherlock Holmes so presumably
fanfic can be dated further. Some academic author (no I can't remember who,
sorry) compared fanfiction to the bardic culture of the early middle ages
(and earlier) with it simply being the way that we as an audience actively
participate in a story/world.

K