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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney@ungames.com> Subject: Re: (whorl) mantis on TBOTSS and fanfic Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:33:16 At 05:26 PM 6/20/01 -0700, Mantis wrote: >So the writing by H & H, while buttressed by interviews, snatches of >conversation, and editorial consensus, amounts to a patch written by fans, >which is rather like a fan fiction in the broad sense (rather than the >specific sense of "slash" or "Mary Sue"). "Fanfic" is not the same thing as "fiction written by fans"; "fan" is not the same thing as "admirer of"; "biography" is not the same as "fiction". -- Kevin Maroney | Unplugged Games kmaroney@ungames.com | (212) 777-1190 *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.moonmilk.com/whorl/ *To leave the list, send "unsubscribe" to whorl-request@lists.best.com *If it's Wolfe but not Long Sun, please use the URTH list: urth@lists.best.com