Fan fiction

immoral and illegal and encouraged people not to write them for “both legal and personal reasons” (Gabaldon, 2010). Martin agreed with Gabaldon’s policy in a blog post and defined fan fiction as “stories about characters taken from the work of other writers without their consent” (Martin, 2010). Transformative fiction also has the potential to change the agenda the author may have been trying to convey through the literature, such as using characters for minority representation. One example is…

Review Essay Here I am in my first semester of of college, and of course I have to read a book about fairytales. Just for a little background, I’m not a fan of fairytales at all. The first story of Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble was “The Summer People”. As I open the book and start reading I’m a little confused because our teacher said it was a fairytale. The story does not leave the real world, which is awesome for me because I know it cannot happen. Kelly Link, in “The Summer People”, tied in…

known as Tom Clancy’s Net Force Explorers is a series young adult novels created by Steve Pieczenik and Tom Clancy. The novels are a spinoff of Tom Clancy military fiction series Net Force. The first novel in the series was Virtual Vandals that was first published in 1998. The novels are generally classified as young adult science fiction. Set in a futuristic 2025, the novel is about preventing the sabotage of the virtual reality network and the Internet by computer terrorists determined to…

Neil Gaiman is an English writer of short fiction, novels, and comic books. Born in Port Chester, Hampshire, England, Gaiman was raised under the church of scientology although his grandfather was of Polish-Jewish descent. His life-long love for literature began at the age of four when he first learned to read. He excelled in school not because he was genius but because he would often read the books his teachers gave him as soon as they were handed out. At the age of seven, he received the Lord…

supernatural young girl with an affinity for Eggo waffles. It does not sound like it should work, but it does. While this summer’s Ghostbusters revival became the new punchline to every science fiction joke, Stranger Things brought a fresh storyline to the tired genre of sequels and remakes, as well as a whole new fan demographic. Stranger Things is set in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana and follows the story of Will Byer’s disappearance. Will’s family and friends soon discover…

Manzanar Final Write Up: Contrary to most people, I did not enjoy the book “Farewell to Manzanar”. The story itself was only partly interesting and I personally am not a fan of non-fiction. Real life is almost never as interesting as someone else's imagination. In addition, reading a non-fiction war story only made me sad since it actually happened. Jeanne Wakatsuki (the author and narrator) was the character I connected to the most. Just like me, she was the youngest in her family.…

Hogwarts”: Fans and Redemption of Antagonists in Harry Potter’s Fanfiction Harry Potter is a literary series that has swept the world with its unique magic filled universe, and as such its fans refuse to let the world created by J.K Rowling be something found only in the pages of the original books, or in our TV screen, so they have take it upon themselves to expand or reshape Harry Potter in many interesting ways. The Harry Potter universe has become a fanfiction phenomenon, its fans are not…

John Kennedy Toole can be, in my opinion, described as one of the most brilliant- and tragic- authors of the 20th century. He is most famous for the novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which won a posthumous Pulitzer. The story of how The Neon Bible came to be published is complex, but The Neon Bible begins at the end of the story, with the main character on a dark train, headed to a place even he doesn't know. We know the resolution before we even know who our protagonist is, or why he is running…

To say The World According to Garp is interesting would be a gargantuan understatement. Irving’s literary fiction book is alluring, compelling, and darkly whimsical. It starts off with a character by the name of Jenny Fields. A devoutly single woman, she finds herself in a movie theater being groped by a random man. Her reaction: slice his arm open with a scalpel she keeps in her purse. When the police come, she solidly states that she is a nurse, and she would have killed him had she wanted to.…

The McTavish Regressions by McTavish & Burette provides a historical fiction twist on the psycho-therapeutic procedure known as Past Life Regression. Past Life Regression practitioners believe that a person’s inexplicable fetish or desire stems from an experience in one of his past lives. Dr. Wallace McTavish, a Past Life Regression specialist, meets his new patient, Laura. Born with a physical disability, Laura spent her entire life stuck in a wheelchair. Thus, she could not fathom why she…