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"text": "In the latest issue of Astounding, our old pal and brother-fan, Milt Rothman makes his professional debut under the pen name: Lee Gregor. And Milt is to be congratulated on the story.... it is definitely pro and not fan fiction.",
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"text": "I also want to put in my two-cents-worth on the subject of fan fiction. There has been a strong trend away from fiction in fanzines of late: SPACEWARP stopped using fan fiction shortly before the end; ORB followed suit; WYLIE STAR will switch; most of the new mags are starting out with non-fiction plans. I think fiction is just as important (if not more so) in fmz as articles. Where else will embryo pro-authors get their start?",
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"ref": "1975, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak, Joan Winston, Star Trek Lives!, page 23:",
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"ref": "1997 September 26, Entertainment Weekly, page 84:",
"text": "Chris Carter may bar X-Filers Mulder and Scully forever from consummating their deep bond—but it's a common fantasy in the archives of fan fiction, where familiar TV and movie characters populate digital poems, scripts, short stories—even full-length novels—that span hundreds of websites and Usenet discussion groups. Readership figures are elusive, but fanfic's America Online index page has collected a half million hits in the past year.",
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"ref": "2020 July 6, Helen Lewis, “How J. K. Rowling Became Voldemort”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "The acres of Harry Potter fan fiction have allowed its Millennial audience to rewrite the stories to fit their own values, easing their discomfort (while still luxuriating in the nostalgic setting of the British private-school system, an institution designed to perpetuate elitism).",
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"text": "Fan fiction writers are just one group now staging revolts against A.I. systems as a fever over the technology has gripped Silicon Valley and the world.",
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"text": "This can be, as you note below, quite fun and entertaining, but I do think that it is very easy for people to lose track of the fact that all of these \"speculations\" are just fan fictions that have little to do with what Tolkien actually wrote.",
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"ref": "1998, Sam Keenleyside, “Nothing But Net”, in Bedside Manners: George Clooney and ER, →ISBN, page 109:",
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"text": "fan fiction - Sometimes improperly used to mean fan science fiction, that is, ordinary fantasy published in a fan magazine. Properly, the term means fiction about fans, or something about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters stf stories. It may refer to real fans by name (Tucker nudged Brackney, who was nursing a \"black eye\"), or may be about types, especially Joe Fann.",
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"word": "ספרות חובבים"
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"sense": "fiction made by fans",
"word": "फ़नफिक्शन"
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"roman": "fan fikushon",
"sense": "fiction made by fans",
"word": "ファン・フィクション"
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"roman": "paen piksyeon",
"sense": "fiction made by fans",
"word": "팬 픽션"
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"sense": "fiction made by fans",
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"word": "แฟนฟิกชัน"
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