published fic
Jun. 30th, 2006 03:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseThe housemates and I had a brief discussion last night about published fanfiction - specifically, the 'real books' stuff like Geraldine Brooks' March, or the often-godawful licensed novelizations of movies/tv shows.
And today, I saw the best example ever of this: It's called Darcy and Elizabeth: Days and Nights at Pemberly.
Clearly, Victorian-era fanfic is the way to go, if you want to make something of it. On the same table at the bookstore near my work is My Jim, an account from the perspective of the wife of Jim from Huckleberry Finn. Same story, folks. Derivative fiction is not necessarily bad fiction. Hell, the frigging Aeneid was glorified fic of Homer's Illiad, and Shakespeare would barely have a play to his name if we discounted the stuff he borrowed from other people. So anyway. Fic away, my friends!
...Just consider doing it for the works whose copyrights have come up, if you want to get somewhere with it!
And since I'm already on the subject...
Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett
The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin
Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett
Daily Life in Civil War America
Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta
Stiff, Mary Roach
Just Add Hormones, (also can't recall atm)
Second-Class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta
Culture as Given, Culture as Choice, Dirk Van Der Elst
The Swamp Thing: Saga of the Swamp Thing, Alan Moore etc.
The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria, Victor C. Uchendu
And a Time to Die, Kaufman
Carried to the Wall, ?
Jingo, Terry Pratchett
The Middle Man (vol. 1)
Fast Food Nation
Fantasy Girls, Elyce Rae Helford
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vol 2, Alan Moore
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Spook, Mary Roach
Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Nataro
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (!!!)
Rules for the Unruly
Guests of the Sheik, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (!!)
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
King Lear
Fruitflesh is turning out to mostly be boring and worthless. I had high hopes, but it pretty much combines the worst of writing-advice books and squishy "chicken soup for the woman's soul" type books. I normally like those, but the bad ones... boy are they bad.
My most exciting revelation from Lear so far has been the source of the name Regan. You guessed it - Simon and River's mum seems to have been named for one of Cordelia's unpleasant sisters. Fitting, no?
And today, I saw the best example ever of this: It's called Darcy and Elizabeth: Days and Nights at Pemberly.
Clearly, Victorian-era fanfic is the way to go, if you want to make something of it. On the same table at the bookstore near my work is My Jim, an account from the perspective of the wife of Jim from Huckleberry Finn. Same story, folks. Derivative fiction is not necessarily bad fiction. Hell, the frigging Aeneid was glorified fic of Homer's Illiad, and Shakespeare would barely have a play to his name if we discounted the stuff he borrowed from other people. So anyway. Fic away, my friends!
...Just consider doing it for the works whose copyrights have come up, if you want to get somewhere with it!
And since I'm already on the subject...
Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett
The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin
Going Postal, Terry Pratchett
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett
Daily Life in Civil War America
Joys of Motherhood, Buchi Emecheta
Stiff, Mary Roach
Just Add Hormones, (also can't recall atm)
Second-Class Citizen, Buchi Emecheta
Culture as Given, Culture as Choice, Dirk Van Der Elst
The Swamp Thing: Saga of the Swamp Thing, Alan Moore etc.
The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria, Victor C. Uchendu
And a Time to Die, Kaufman
Carried to the Wall, ?
Jingo, Terry Pratchett
The Middle Man (vol. 1)
Fast Food Nation
Fantasy Girls, Elyce Rae Helford
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vol 2, Alan Moore
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Spook, Mary Roach
Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Nataro
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (!!!)
Rules for the Unruly
Guests of the Sheik, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea (!!)
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
King Lear
Fruitflesh is turning out to mostly be boring and worthless. I had high hopes, but it pretty much combines the worst of writing-advice books and squishy "chicken soup for the woman's soul" type books. I normally like those, but the bad ones... boy are they bad.
My most exciting revelation from Lear so far has been the source of the name Regan. You guessed it - Simon and River's mum seems to have been named for one of Cordelia's unpleasant sisters. Fitting, no?
