There’s a lot of authors out there who hate fanfic…they see it as either theft or the road to legal liability (Raymond Feist once said in a mailing list that he didn’t want to be sued by somebody because he writes something that ends up being similar to some fanfic out there).
On the other side of the line, Cory Doctorow seems to love fanfic. His latest article on Locus Online says:
Two things are sure about all fanfic, though: first, that people who
write and read fanfic are already avid readers of writers whose work
they’re paying homage to; and second, that the people who write and
read fanfic derive fantastic satisfaction from their labors. This is
great news for writers.
So I guess not all authors hate fanfic :) The rest of his article is worth reading, so go read Cory Doctorow’s In Praise of Fanfic.
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