Re: Adaptations and borrowing..

Have you read the analysis of how FSoG happened from the perspective of
someone /in/ the Twilight fandom?

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey:_The_Reddit_Origins_Essay

It you're into that sort of analysis, it's really fascinating. Both in
the "fandom dynamics are so cool" sense, and also the "woah, this person
who dangerously romanticized physical abuse is /also a huge jerk-face
who doesn't care about other people/" sense, too.

On 03/11/2015 01:54 PM, O'Keeffe, Hope wrote:
> Hell no, I just know its origin story.  I have, however, read Jasper
> Fforde’s Shades of Grey, if that counts. Patrick Rothfuss posted a great
> picture of his 50 copies of it.
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> *From:*Charley Seavey [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:20 AM
> *To:* Science Fiction and Fantasy Listserv; O'Keeffe, Hope
> *Subject:* Re: [SF-LIT] Adaptations and borrowing..
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> Hope- you actually /read/ Fifty Shades of Grey? My condolences.
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> charley
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> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:40 AM, O'Keeffe, Hope <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> And then there's the reverse: Fifty Shades of Grey's origin as Twilight
> fan fiction...
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> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On
> Behalf Of Colleen Cahill
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 6:26 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [SF-LIT] Adaptations and borrowing..
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> Charley,
>    The first two authors who jumped to my mind are Matthew Hughes
> (http://www.matthewhughes.org/) and Chris Dolley (chris-dolley.com
> <http://chris-dolley.com>), both of whom have written science fiction
> homages to P.D. Wodehouse's Bertie and Jeeve's stories. They both
> captured the good hearted humor of the original works and are quite a
> bit of fun.
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>   This is just the tip of the ice burg, as I am sure most authors have
> some literary influence.
> 
> Colleen
> Colleen Cahill
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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> On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 08:39:42 -0600, Charley Seavey
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
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>>Cruising through the public library yesterday I came across a copy of a
>>long ago Poul Anderson novel *The Game of Empire. *"First new Flandry
>>novel in years" is the blurb on the cover- published in 1985 as it
>>turns out. I loved the Flandry stories all those years ago, and did not
>>remember reading this one.
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>>About two pages in I started thinking "this reads a whole lot like the
>>opening chapter of Kipling's *Kim." *A bit more and a religious pilgrim
>>appears. Along towards the end of the chapter he refers to the other
>>character as "...little sprite of all the world."  Which nailed it for me.
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>>Which brought up the question in my mind: how many other
>>writers/stories owe greater or large amounts to earlier writers? David
>>Drake makes no bones about his RCN series having roots in Patrick
>>O'Brian's nautical tales, although his plots are drawn from history
>>back. I suspect Shakespeare must have contributed a plot or two. What
>>else occurs to the assembled readers as having roots in other literary
>>streams? Some must be obvious, maybe not others. Discussion should ensue.
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>>charley
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>>--
>>Charley
>>Desert Sailor
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> Charley
> Desert Sailor
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