Re: New Encyclopedia

Keith Henson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.sf.killerbs
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On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:00 PM,   trent shipley
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Keith Henson <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Does Imaginaria stretch far enough to encompass Tom Clancy type novels?
>
> I haven't read any Tom Clancy so I don't have a bias to share on this
> point.  I think some of his novels may be science fiction enough to
> qualify while others require suspension of disbelief but don't really
> have the rupture with mundane reality that imaginaria requires.

Debt of Honor (1994) foretold 9/11.  So as predictive SF it certainly
made the cut.

>> Any objection to using the space to actually write short stories or
>> novels? ?I.e., put up stuff you are not trying to sell and have no
>> intention of selling where people could edit the work.
>
> No fiction.  The intellectual property lawyers hate fan fiction.
> Trivia good.  Fiction bad.

It's your wiki, you set the rules about what you want there.

However, I don't see any reason for IP lawyers to get involved in (non
derivative) fiction put up under a CC type license.  Perhaps you could
explain?

Keith
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