Get your own Free HomepageYou didn't come on the InterWeb to come here. You didn't get an ISP to download fanfic. Yet here you are.
Hello.
It doesn't matter what you wanted to use the InterWeb for, you'll end up getting text. It doesn't matter if you wanted to download porn, listen to albums, get new games: you'll *always* end up downloading text. The main reason is that text is essential to browsing the InterWeb. You can turn off images, movies, samples and still have fun online, but just you try doing without text and see how far you get. Even if you use the InterWeb for downloading predominantly non text, there is still a good chance that you will end up downloading text by the screenfull. Why? Because text downloads *fast*. I can take ten minutes downloading one meg of picture, and within a second I've seen it. I can download a meg of text, and spend all day reading it and replying to it.
I love text.
I also love fan fiction.
And if you don't now, hopefully you soon will.
This website was set up as a guide to people who want to find fanfic that they would be interested in. Within, I review fanfic archives, fanfic stories, and anything other original material written by fans on their favourite TV shows, films and musicians. The best sites will recieve a Gold Destruction award to place on their site, and will hopefully recieve an influx of hits on their site. Everyone's a winner.
Why now? Well, as you may have noticed, there are many professional tie in novels available. These aren't necessary better than net based fan fiction - in many cases they are worse, but that doesn't stop them from selling by the bucketload. I came across the worst perpetrator in a local scince fiction shop - a fully sanctionned Star Trek: The Next Generation/The X-Men crossover. To me, that sounds blantantly like someone found such a crossover on line and decided to write there own version. Of course, they are going to get heaps of money out of it while the original fanfic writer isn't going to get anything. Why should they? They only inspired the book, it's not as if the whole thing was stolen. Come to think of it, why should we buy the book when we can get something just as good on line? Of course, the actual crossover might be completely original, but do you think that it would have existed without the multitude of crossover fanfics on line?
I hope that you all find this page useful. Please send all your comments, suggestions and plugs for fanfic sites to me, and I'll endeavour to address your points on my site.
Dan Ness
Note: Yes there is a bias towards science fiction/fantasy sites, but
I will not give any non SF sites lower marks.
© Dan Ness, 1998. So you want to redistribute this, huh? Well tough! This is my work, and it stays here. Link to the title page.
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