Online fan fiction has proven a godsend for hard-core entertainment aficionados, giving them a rare opportunity to create and experience, say, a Xena and Captain Kirk encounter that previously could ...

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So Robin the Boy Wonder and Professor Minerva McGonagall walk into a bar … Hey, it could happen. Not in any official capacity from DC Comics or J.K. Rowling. But in the imagination and online ...

Fan fiction writers aren’t just penning alternate universe reimaginings of the Barbie movie, or steamy scenes featuring Marvel superheroes. This week, they’re writing letters to their senators, ...

What if meth superstar Walter White on “Breaking Bad” brought his son into the business, while Jesse Pinkman retired to upstate New York, got married, and had three wonderful kids? What if Jane Austen ...

Once a quasi-underground activity carried on in a handful of 'zines, fan fiction exploded when it hit the Internet. Suddenly, fans wanting to continue the adventures of their favorite fictional ...

Finn Hekkala has been writing fanfiction on Tumblr for almost a decade. They only have one regret. But the only constant online is change. On July 22, Tumblr announced a new feature that experiments ...

This week, BookTok creators shared their thoughts on the potential positives and concerns around publishing reworked fan fiction. Fan fiction, Suraka (@surakajanebooks; 17,000 followers) wrote, is ...

Fan fiction — the creation of unsanctioned, unofficially published, new works usually based on popular novels or films — was intentionally never mainstream. There are the legal issues — copyright laws ...