The Oxford English Dictionary has listed "fan fiction" since December 2004, and in July 2009 Merriam-Webster followed suit, adding the term to the online and print editions of their dictionary, confirming fan fiction as the accepted standard spelling in American publishing. Mainstream dictionaries, always struggling to define moving targets, attempt to clarify, and do so with the added complication of differing audiences. However, other fans do not make this usage distinction at all and use fan fiction within fannish contexts. In academia and fan studies, fan fiction has been the accepted spelling. Some fans feel that the use of "fan fiction" instead of "fanfiction" reveals the user to be someone who is an outsider to fandom. Newer and younger fans tend to use "fic" or "fanfic," while older fans more often utilize the longer term. The term fanfiction, and the variations fanfic or simply fic, are the most common terms within fandom. And Star Trek fans started publishing zines ( lots and lots of zines) with fanfic in the late 1960s, starting with Spockanalia. Possibly the first published Tolkien fanfic appeared in I Palantir in 1960. A fictional account of 19th century fanfic writers can be found in Little Women, suggesting that the pursuit was widespread, if undocumented. Sherlockians were writing pastiches about the Great Detective in their journals in the early 1900s.
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(See Jane Austen fandom history.) Sherlock Holmes appeared in fiction written by other authors as early as 1891's An Evening With Sherlock Holmes, the first of three Holmes parodies by James M. the more shocking the revisions, the better." Jane Austen fanfic has been around since Austen's nieces started writing it. Readers started to imagine its hero, Lemuel Gulliver, in circumstances. Shannon Chamberlain argues that the appearance of hundreds of stories extending Jonathan Swift’s 1726 "Gulliver’s Travels" (many sexual) "marked the beginning of movement. However, the point at which "true" fanfiction - or at least, identifiable amateur stories by fans using copyrightable creative works - started to be written is difficult to determine and depends on how broadly one defines the term itself. By 2008, a poll on EW's PopWatch Fan fiction: do you write it? poll was answered by 35% as 'yes', and 37% as 'I read it'. In 2004, the Writers University compiled a timeline of the history of fan fiction, starting (somewhat tongue in cheek) with the invention of paper and ending with the archive. The only difference now is, more people share their work with others :) But I was doing it anyway - and I'm sure everyone in every time back to when printed stories became widely available people were imagining sequels, What If's, etc. *I* certainly didn't know what fanfic was then. but hey, I was seven.) and my friend and I used to make up stories about ST as we rode down the bike path every afternoon. Heck, I can recall stories I made upĪbout SW (bad Mary Sues, I might add. From a fan in 2000: "As far as I figure it, "fanfic" has been something that has probably existed in every kid's life, no matter what year. Numerous fans have memories of writing and "acting out" stories from the shows and books they saw and read. įanfiction, the creative appropriation of existing characters, is a part of play. Shakespeare's history plays are based on real personages much like Real People Fiction, while many of his comedies and tragedies are based on existing stories from Italian history, classical myths, and other existing stories. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is partly a reworking of other stories, including some from Boccaccio's Decameron. For example, Virgil's Aeneid is an explicit follow-on to The Iliad, linking the Roman origin myth to Greek heroes. Post- Star Trek, the original meaning of the term appears to have been completely supplanted by the new definition-fiction by fans using pre-existing characters and/or settings.įrom prehistory, stories were built on other stories: retelling, extending, and sometimes subverting them.
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See Wiktionary and Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. The earliest example cited in dictionaries for the modern use of the word is in Star Trek Lives! in 1975. Fiction about fans was also known as faan fiction. However, fan fiction originally meant either amateur science fiction published in a fanzine by a fan or fiction by a fan about fans. The term fan fiction is from science fiction fandom and according to Brave New Words antedates 1939. He is my typewriter, which I up and bought with $20 that should have gone to the electric bill!" įor information about some specific works of fanfiction, see Category:Fanfiction. He is grey, with green teeth and a great carriage. She is surrounded by paper tribbles, a by-product of The Fannish Writer in her natural habitat. A fan/ zine ed named Julia Howarth (West) typing up an issue of The Communicator.