Boggled

[andrewducker]

I just discovered that Jasper Fforde disapproves of fanfic.

I am completely boggled.

Comments

[snarlish.livejournal.com]

I'm also not sure why you are boggled. Although Fforde owes a debt to 'Who Killed Roger Rabbit', and, like Alan Moore, exploited creations of other authors, his Thursday Next stories really are their own creatures.

Charles Stross (who has also exploited the mythology of another author) recently addressed the fanfic issue more completely: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/faq-fanfic.html

[andrewducker]

He takes existing characters and worlds and uses them to write his own stories. That's pretty much the definition of fanfic.