Saturday, January 30, 2010

March 2010 Fan Fiction

March 2010 - Fan Fiction

Was the writer trying to copy the writing of the original, or do something else entirely? Is the novel a sequel, prequel, homage or re-writing? Does it cast the original in a new light?

Examples include:

Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels)

Nursery Crime Series by Jasper Fforde (The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear)

March - Geraldine Brooks

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Seth Grahame-Smith (mash-up)

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters - Ben H Winters (mash-up)

The Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story - Emma Tennant

Thornfield Hall: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story - Emma Tennant

The French Dancer's Bastard: The Story of Adele from Jane Eyre - Emma Tennant

Emma in Love - Emma Tennant

Alice Fell - Emma Tennant

The Search for Treasure Island - Emma Tennant

Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde -- Emma Tennant

An Unequal Marriage: Or Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later - Emma Tennant

Pemberley Revisited - Emma Tennant

Tess - Emma Tennant

Faustine - Emma Tennant

Tara - Emma Tennant

Heathcliffe's Tale - Emma Tennant

Darcy's Story - Janet Aylmer

Two Shall Become One (Mr and Mrs Fitzwilliam Darcy, book 1) - Sharon Lathan

Mr Darcy's Daughters (Darcys, book 1) - Elizabeth Aston

An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman, book 4)- Pamela Aiden

Elinor and Marianne - Emma Tennant

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet - Colleen McCullogh

Colonel Brandon's Dairy - Amanda Grange

None But You (Frederick Wentworth, Captain, book 1 ) - Susan Kaye

Darcy and Elizabeth - Linda Berdoll

Emma and Knightly - Rachel Billington

The Third Sister - Julia Barrett

The Mistress of Pemberley - Isobel Scott Moffat

Mr Darcy Takes a Wife - Linda Berdoll

Pemberley Manor: Darcy and Elizabeth, for better or for worse - Kathryn Nelson

Paul of Dune - Brain Herbert

Chance Encounters - Linda Wells

Fate and Consequences; A Tale of Pride and Prejudice - Linda Wells

Affinity and Affection - Linda Wells

Scarlett - Alexandra Ripley

Rhett Butler's People - Donald McCaig

The Wind Done Gone - Alice Randall

Mrs de Winter - Susan Hill

The Other Rebecca - Maureen Freely

Rebecca's Tale - Sally Beauman

Cassandra - Christa Wolf

Medea - Christa Wolf

Song of Troy - Colleen McCullough

Cassandra - Kerry Greenwood

The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Osysseus - Margaret Atwood

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles - Jeanette Winterson

Cassandra:Princess of Troy - Hilary Bailey

Troy - Adele Geras

Ithaka - Adele Geras

Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of The Women Who Lived the Trojan War -Clarence McLaren

Here on Earth - Alice Hoffman

Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones


Online communities - Buffy, Star Trek, Harry Potter etc

1 comment:

  1. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/lost-in-austen-and-androids-20100401-rh8v.html

    An interview with the guy who wrote the Austen mash-ups.

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