A Fan Post I've Been Meaning To Make For A While

[lowkey]

thingswithwings posted a list of the entries that she felt deserved more love in eruthros's (now closed) Top 100 Speculative Fiction Works. I had already voted in the poll, but thingswithwings' post helped me crystalize some of the thoughts I had had about the experience.

At first, I was a little confused by the inclusion of fan works along side "real" works, but then I decided I'd take the entire experience as a chance to be exposed to fan works I had never heard of (because unlike the "real" stuff, all of the fan works are available for free on the internet).

So this is how I came to experience the amazingness that is the SGA fic Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose. I think I'm going to write a whole piece on why this is an awesome story, and I think I'm going to compare it to another one of my all-time favorite books (which, coincidently, is on eruthros' poll but isn't doing so well), The Years of Rice and Salt.

Comments

[mako_lies]

Very interesting. Thanks for the links, will need to browse the speculative fiction stuff. Looks like my cup of tea. :)

Kinda cool they included fanworks... Haven't seen fanworks included in a poll like that, before.

[owlmoose]

I am really not sure how I feel about having fanworks on that list. I certainly believe that the best fanworks can easily be as good as commercially published works. But it starts to feel like a popularity contest: who is best known, rather than what is best. Then again, I have the same twitchiness around any kind of fanworks contest that involves voting, so maybe I'm just weird.

But I do definitely plan to take a closer look at some of the fanworks there, especially the vids. I need to explore the world of vids more closely.