Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature?

Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about reading, writing, and authorship. It's a story about literature, community, and technology-about what stories are being told, who's telling them, how, and why.

With provocative discussions from both professional and fan writers, on subjects from Star Trek to The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Harry Potter, Twilight, and beyond, Fic sheds light on the widely misunderstood world(s) of fanfiction-not only how fanfiction is transforming the literary landscape, but how it already has.

Fic features a foreword by Lev Grossman (author of The Magicians ) and interviews with Jonathan Lethem, Doug Wright, Eurydice (Vivean Dean), and Katie Forsythe/wordstrings.

Cyndy Aleo (algonquinrt; d0tpark3r)
V. Arrow (aimmyarrowshigh)
Tish Beaty (his_tweet)
Brad Bell
Amber Benson
Peter Berg (Homfrog)
Kristina Busse
Rachel Caine
Francesca Coppa
Randi Flanagan (BellaFlan)
Jolie Fontenot
Wendy C. Fries (Atlin Merrick)
Ron Hogan
Bethan Jones
Christina Lauren (Christina Hobbs/tby789 and Lauren Billings/LolaShoes)
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Rukmini Pande and Samira Nadkarni
Chris Rankin
Tiffany Reisz
Andrew Shaffer
Andy Sawyer
Heidi Tandy (Heidi8)
Darren Wershler
Jules Wilkinson (missyjack)
Jen Zern (NautiBitz)

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword (p. xi)
• Introduction
• The Theory of Narrative Causality (p. 3)
• Why Fie? (p. 17)
• Part (p. 1)
• Writing from Sources (p. 25)
• A Prehistory of Fanfiction (p. 26)
• The Look of Fic: 1800s (p. 37)
• The Sherlock Holmes Material: A Study in Fanfic (p. 39)
• The Early Adventures of the Apocryphal Sherlock Holmes (p. 42)
• The Look of Fic: 1920s (p. 47)
• Mad as a Box of Frogs (p. 48"Love Is a)
• The Slasher Who Is Not One (An Interview with Katie Forsythe and wordstrings) (p. 63)
• Part (p. 2)
• A Selective History of Media Fandom (p. 71)
• Science Fiction, Star Trek, and the Birth of Media Fandom (p. 73)
• Fables of Irish Fandom (p. 77)
• I Am Woman, Read My Fic (p. 84)
• Recollections of a Collating Party (p. 91)
• The Look of Fic: 1970s (p. 100)
• Interlude: Growing Up Fic (p. 103)
• Literary Playtime (p. 106)
• The X-Files, Buffy, and this Rise of the Internet Re Fandoms (p. 111)
• The X-Philes (p. 118)
• Mulder/Scully versus the G-Woman and the Fowl One (p. 122)
• The Look of Fic 1995 (p. 130)
• The Bronze Age (p. 131)
• Fic U (p. 140)
• The Look of Fic: 1999 (p. 149)
• Megafandoms: Harry Potter and Twilight (p. 151)
• An Excerpt from Percy Weasley's University Thesis (p. 157)
• How Harry Potter Fanfic Changed the World (Or at Least the Internet) (p. 165)
• The Look of Fic: 2001-2002 (p. 175)
• The Twilight random (p. 177)
• Twilights True Believers (p. 188)
• A Million Words (p. 193)
• An Interview with tby789 (Christina Hobbs) (p. 199)
• The Look of Fic: 2009-2010 (p. 205)
• On writing-and Being-a Mary Sue (p. 207)
• Becoming Bella Swan (p. 212)
• The Fandom Gives Bach (p. 219)
• Snowqueens Icedragon (E. L. James) and Sebastien Robichaud (Sylvain Reynard): A Fandom Exchange (p. 224)
• An Anatomy of a Flame War (p. 232)
• Bittersweet (p. 253)
• PART 3 Fic and Publishing (p. 259)
• An Interview with Eurydice (Vivean Dean) (p. 263)
• Fifty Shades of Cold (p. 268)
• The Briar Patch (p. 274)
• Just Change the Names (p. 289)
• Preying for More (p. 293)
• Part (p. 4)
• Fanwriting Today (p. 299)
• An Archive of Our Own (p. 302)
• The Epic Love Story of Supernatural and Fanfic (p. 309)
• Pon Fan; Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegavene (p. 316)
• Real Person(a) Fiction (p. 323)
• #Bradam Forever (p. 333)
• Hobbyhoising (p. 337)
• From a Land Where "Other" People Live (p. 342)
• The Look of Fic: 2013 (p. 353)
• Part (p. 5)
• Fanfiction and Write Who Don't Write Fanfiction (p. 355)
• Conceptual Writing as Fanfiction (p. 363)
• An Interview with Doug Wright (p. 372)
• An Interview with Jonathan Lethem (p. 377)
• Blurring the Lines (p. 384)
• Acknowledgments (p. 389)
• About the Contributors (p. 391)
• About the Author (p. 397)
• Endnotes (p. 398)
• Index (p. 409)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Library Journal Review

In a series of essays edited by Jamison (English, Univ. of Utah), professional and amateur writers come together to dissect and discuss the social phenomena of fanfiction (fic)-stories that dip into already existing creative worlds to expand or alter these works for the entertainment of fans. Using examples that range from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight to the TV show Supernatural to the members of the musical group One Direction, authors include actress Amber Benson (Among the Ghosts) and actor Chris Rankin (known for playing Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films), among other fic writers who describe their forays into the medium that garnered them Internet fame. Sprinkled among the book's detailed history and terminology is comfort for those still carrying scars from the intensely battled Harry Potter shipping wars (readers argue over which characters should end up together). For those looking to put pen to paper, there are do's and don'ts for crafting a true-to-character smut scene, and for readers who feel like they've been dropped into a sea of fanspeak, there is reward in learning how writers such as Cassandra Clare (City of Bones) and E.L. James (Fifty Shades of Grey) got their start. VERDICT This definitive volume offers a rich immersion into fanfiction and is for anyone who has both loved and lived for the unique community of fandom, as well as for those who desire a look into this world or who are curious about the unexpected impact fic is having on the literary realm.-Kate -DiGirolomo, Library Journal (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.