30 Published Fanfictions

[shadowkat]

Here's a list of published fanfiction...books and or musicals/plays that either started out as fanfiction or are clearly fanfiction and got published, because they fall under a legal loop-hole. (ie. the original work is in the public domain or, it's vaguely based on the original work but in reality bares little resemblance to it. Everybody's Human fic for Spike and Buffy and other genres probably fits here.)

1. Fifty Shades of Grey - based on a Twilight fanfic (oddly Twilight feels more like it was based on a fanfic than this does, also this reminds me of a Harlequinn that I read in 2002 that was written by an acquaintance and based on a Spuffy fanfic. I'm reading it - the writer seems more interested in Thomas Hardy and Tess of D'Urbevilles - I have the oddest desire to watch that film now or read the book. Twilight - I found unreadable and gave up - in the book store. I'm not saying it's great, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's no worse than a lot of Regency or Harlequinn novels I've read, and/or half a dozen other books. It is interesting how insane people are about it. Oh? It is better written than The Story of O (which I tried to read and gave up, I don't know it was the translation - but that is a badly written book) and Anne Rice's Beauty...which I also attempted to read, and is also a poorly written book and fanfiction - an erotic retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story but seems to be mostly about the porn. It's Porn without Plot in capital letters, so too was The Story of O. At least Fifty Shades has a plot. And some witty lines, the other two don't.)
2. Pride & Prejudice and Zombies (god this one was bad, I picked it up in book store, unreadable tripe. And a blatant attempt to use someone else's work to make money. If Austen was alive? She should sue for plagirism.)
3. Sense and Sensability and Sea Monsters (stop the madness please)
4. Ahab's Wife - won an award
5. The Wide Sargasso Sea - about Mr. Rochester's first wife in Jane Eyre
6. Death Comes to Pemberly by PD James - I hear it is deathly dull
7. Scarlett - the sequel to Gone with the Wind (not very good I hear)
8. Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (a modern version of King Lear)
9. Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth - a modern version of Wuthering Heights
10. Geraldine Brooks - March - a parallel re-telling of Little Women
11. JM Corteze's novel - Foe based on Robinson Crusoe
12. Stephen Moffat's Sherlock and Jekyll - fanfic series based on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
13. My Fair Lady - a rip-off musical version of George Bernard Shaw's Pgymallion
14. West Side Story - a rip off of Romeo and Juliet
15. Bridget Jones Diary - a modern day retelling of Pride and Prejudice

Go here for an extensive list :
I'm done explaining about fanfic This is really a brilliant post, everyone who reads my journal should go read it now. If it doesn't change your views about fanfic's legitmacy than nothing will.

16. Mr. Darcy's Obsession by Abigail Reynolds
17.Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy - the Last Man in the World - by Abigail Reynolds
18. A Wife for Mr. Darcy by Mary Simonsen
19. Mr. Darcy and the Secret of Becoming a Gentleman by Maria Hamilton
20. Serenity: Float Out by Patton Oswalt (Serenity - Firefly fanfic)
21. Arche Enemy : The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Another extensive list of published fanfiction - which was originally shelved at least once as "published fanfiction" - by the author: http://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/published-fanfiction

22. Mistress Masham's Repose by TH White
23. Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance by George RR Martin
24. The Beekeepers Apprentice by Laurie King
25. Maskerade (Discworld 18) by Terry Prachett
26. It's Superman! by Tom De Haven
27. The Billionaire Bum by Samatha Blair
28. The Spainish Bride by Georgette Heyer - is a Real Person Fanfic based on the autobiography of Harry Smith.
29. Blonde - a novel by Joyce Carol Oats - a Real Person Fanfic on Marilyn Monroe
30. Neil Gaiman's Sandman - a retelling of the original Sandman comics.

Comments

[spikesjojo.livejournal.com]

Plus the fact that so many writers started in fan writing. It's a perfect apprenticeship. I can't count how many women published in SF started by writing Star Trek fanfic. It changed the field and opened the door in what had been a very male dominated filed up til then.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

So true. About 50% of the Buffy writers - started out as fanfic writers. They actually get their jobs writing spec scripts for other shows. Drew Goddard got the Buffy job for a fanfic teleplay that he wrote for Six Feet Under. And Jane Espenson got her Star Trek gig, because she'd been writing Star Trek fanfic.

There's also all the published fanfics of Star Trek, Star Wars, Buffy, Angel,
etc...which are permitted by the studio copyright owners of the original work as derivative works. Splinter in the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster is Star Wars fanfic.