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Parallel Fiction
samstarfire:
I don't think this will happen with the Dresden files, although it certainly might. Jim Butcher has a very unique style, and it wouldn't be good if people started to ruin that by sullying the dresden name. So I don't think taht Jim would alow this at all. But for unofficial fancition, my friend has started a story on fanfiction.net, and so has someone else.
Shiloh:
The Star Wars novels also tend to be overseen by an editorial board that plans storylines, then has authors work on those lines; the New Jedi Order series was done that way. R.A. Salvatore received a lot of hate mail over the events of Vector Prime, when it was the board and Lucas that mandated said events.
As far as fan fiction/parallel fiction goes, I don't quite get the allure. I understand paying homage to a writer and his creations, and Jim has created something really special here. But here's the catch - such stories can be kept out of these forums easily enough. Still, people are posting elsewhere. And if in a future Dresden novel "X" occurs, and someone wrote something similar to "X" and posted it somewhere, there will be the feeling that the idea was stolen.
Some years ago I was working on a science fiction novel, and had a ship caught in tractor beams. The pilot escaped by firing missiles at the capturing vessel to break up the beam. Two years later something very similar showed up in a Star Wars novel. Even though there was no way that author could have know about my idea (my writings never approached the show-to-my-friends state, much less send-to-publishers), I still felt cheated. At the very least, I knew I couldn't use that scene, because I'd get hit with "so and so did that exact same thing!"
Redefinition:
Modified for...personal reasons.
Personally I love the Dresden Files and look forward to the offical RPG...don't know so much about Star Trek though.
iago:
--- Quote from: Redefinition on June 11, 2006, 01:19:11 AM ---All in my entire question is will anybody try to take action against me if do I set it up? Seeing as rpol.net is fairly well known in the role playing community and can be easily found if one is looking. Is it basically just fan fiction in a games clothing? Oh and would I be attacked brutally by the makers of the official RPG game for infringing on their concepts…even though I don’t actually know any of them.
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You talk like someone who's gotten kicked in the crotch one too many times. Attacked brutally? No; we don't attack brutally. Please don't assume that we're the sort of people who would. ;)
As far as the "fan fic" stuff goes, the main idea is that you shouldn't CALL ATTENTION to it. Jim probably isn't going to deliberately go looking for this stuff, on an agenda of "intentional ignorance" ... So your best game plan would be to, say, not mention it at all here. ;)
Redefinition:
Yeah I just have a funny way of speakin is all. Thanks for that I'll take it into consideration...*has a sudden attack of amnesia*...er why am I here again?
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