Fan Fiction For Sale

[Atrocities]

I cannot believe it, but I just saw a book on the shelf at Safeway for sale. "Halo" First Strike.

I guess the day of free fan fiction has come of age now. I often wonder whatever happened to all those long stories written by fans of Tribes on the old Tribes Players forum. Man that site was an active one, it had over a million Posts, and some of the fan writing was just increadable.

Well looks like authors are now cashin in on Halo, an inferior game to Tribes by a long shot, but still fun enough to keep ya coming back for more.

I was seriously considering buying the book, it seemed like it would be a good read, but the cost of it weighed against the need for medicine and my lack of funds told me no.

I wonder what other fan fiction has been converted from free to print? I wonder if there is a Tribes book or two out there. I should do a search for them. IF any one reads the Halo book let me know if it was worth it.

I mean I agree that the authors should get compensated for their work, and I support the leap from free to print, and I wish them all the sales in the world.



[ February 03, 2004, 17:09: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[gregebowman]

I've seen those Halo books also, but never having played the game, the desire isn't there to buy it. But I have seen teh new Star WArs book based on the on-line game. I'm tempted, but it's not a necessity right now. I got more than enough books to read. Maybe when I'm running low, I'll get it.

[capnq]

There was a fanfic called _The Doctor and the Enterprise_ by Jean Airey which was published in several editions. It was a Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover. It was a fun read, but needed a good editor.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

come over to Canada and you can probably get your medication paid for.

personally, franchise books, in my opinion, run the danger of being amaturish. and i havn't liked much of the new star trek books.

[gregebowman]

As much as a trekkie as I am, I don't really like reading the Star Trek books. I guess I got spoiled reading the Star Wars books, which about 99% of them are in continuity with each other and also the comic books. Paramount has no such desire to have a seamless continuity; they're more interested in making a buck. Also, as far as the ST books go, most of them were hack jobs by people I never heard of before who created a story and slapped the ST crew in there. I think the worse one I read was done by Barbara Hambly. As a fantasy writer, she's great. As a wannabe ST author, she stunk. There's only a handful of ST books I'll read, and those are done mostly by Peter David, Diane Carey, Diane Duane and William Shatner (and his ghostwriters). Sometimes I'll get one because of the subject, but as a rule, I don't buy that many of them.

[Loser]

If you read Star Trek books ever you should read How Much for Just the Planet. It is a riot.

[ February 03, 2004, 21:32: Message edited by: Loser ]