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Fan Fiction
Fan fiction, or fanfiction (often abbreviated as fan fic, fanfic, or simply fic), is a broadly defined fan labor term for stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator.
Works of fan fiction are rarely commissioned or authorized by the original work's owner, creator, or publisher; also, they are almost never professionally published. Due to these works' not being published, stories often contain a disclaimer stating that the creator of the work owns none of the original characters.
Fan fiction is defined by being both related to it ...more
Works of fan fiction are rarely commissioned or authorized by the original work's owner, creator, or publisher; also, they are almost never professionally published. Due to these works' not being published, stories often contain a disclaimer stating that the creator of the work owns none of the original characters.
Fan fiction is defined by being both related to it ...more
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Reading by the fire when it’s raining is the closest thing we have to a cure for the human condition
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― Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love
― Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HPMOR), a novel running to 650,000 words (substantially longer than War and Peace), is among the most widely read pieces of Harry Potter fan fiction on the internet. Yudkowsky started working on it in 2010, posting chapters online as he wrote them for the next five years.
Yudkowsky's Harry Potter is a wizard in training and a child prodigy with a set of interests and goals suspiciously similar to those of Yudkowsky himself: eliminating death is a
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― More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
― More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
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