There are many other examples outside the Star Trek universe. Sci-fi and fantasy author Diane Duane, who has authored over 10 Star Trek novels, previously wrote fanfiction. Lois McMaster Bujold, writer of sci-fi series the Vorkosigan Saga, contributed to numerous Star Trek fanzines in the late 1960s.
Many fanzine authors would later find professional careers. Some authors collected their works into fanzines that were typically sold at cost. “Kirk and Spock are the granddaddies of slash fanfic, which goes all the way back to when fans were writing it out and handing it to each other at conventions,” says Andi VanderKolk, co-host of the Women At Warp podcast. "It was definitely the first widely discussed slash pairing." "The term slash comes from the way that pairing was written (K/S)," says Flourish Klink, co-host of the Fansplaining podcast. Slash fiction features two or more characters of the same gender in a relationship. Some fanworks featured Kirk and Spock in a romantic relationship, which gave rise to the popular “slash” subgenre. The roots of modern fanfiction lie in the Star Trek fanzines of the '70s and '80s, though some critics would argue The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which predates the Star Trek TV series by two years, started the movement. The commercialization of fanfiction began before the internet came into existence, back when E.L. Kirk And Spock: The "Grandaddies Of Slash Fanfic" James is the most commercially successful fanfiction author of all time, but she's far from the. The success of the Fifty Shades franchise triggered a gold rush, with publishers clamoring to find the next big thing in fanfiction.Į.L. James represents fanfiction in mainstream culture. theaters – and hitting the international box office on Valentine’s Day – James’ fortunes will only continue to grow.įor better or worse, E.L. With Fifty Shades Darker now showing in U.S. James was the eighth highest-paid author in the world, earning $14 million in 12 months, which brings her four-year total earnings to a whopping $131 million. James the highest-paid author in the world, with $95 million in earnings, thanks to her massive book sales and a seven-figure paycheck for the first movie adaptation. To date, James has sold over 70 million copies worldwide, including print, e-books and audiobooks. James published the renamed Fifty Shades of Grey with Writer’s Coffee Shop, an independent Australian publisher that was created by fans to commercially publish their work. After removing references to Twilight from Master of the Universe, a practice known as “filing off the serial numbers,” E.L. Though the Fifty Shades itself has been dismissed by many as “mommy porn” and “the Great Idiot American Novel,” James is the most commercially successful fanfiction author of all time.
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