Fan Fiction For Sale

gregebowman · #1 February 5th, 2004, 11:17 PM

I agree. I don't think every idea has been used to death yet. Heck, there are probably a lot of the old sci-fi books I've never read and will probably never get a chance to read. But that doesn't mean that if I were to write a novel and it happened to be close to what someone wrote 50 years ago, that the idea has already been used. It would just be a coincidence. As a matter of fact, I have 2 story ideas I've been toying with for years, but have never actually written them down. I can't say they're original ideas, but I've never seen a similar story in print, at least not yet. Maybe one of these days I'll actually write them out. And I'll continue to buy and read the books I find interesting. Not that I find all sci-fi and fantasy books interesting, at least from the brief description on the back of the book. But if a story is good, it doesn't matter to me if 20 different authors have used a similar formulae. As long as I get pleasure from reading it, that's what counts to me.

dmm · #2 February 5th, 2004, 11:23 PM

Hey, just don't try to READ all those sci-fi books. You'll wind up posting all sorts of wierdness, and starting dozens of retarded threads, and getting into bizzare flame wars, and eventually get yourself kicked off the forum.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 February 6th, 2004, 07:54 AM

you might even LEARN something! we can't possibly have that, can we?

gregebowman · #4 February 6th, 2004, 10:55 PM

Some authors have PhD's, and you can actually learn a thing or two while reading the sci-fi books. Even Michael Crichton books seem plausible, given the science (maybe except for Timeline, although I'd love to see a time machine in action). The only reason I didn't pursue my interest in astronomy was because I didn't want to take physics and the higher math courses. I barely passed basic algebra. I can't imagine trying to do calculus or trigonometry.

Atrocities · #5 February 8th, 2004, 02:03 AM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:

It has all been done, there is nothing left that can be done that is new, so let us review the past for new ideas on old things.

It has not been all done. There are still millions of ideas if not more out there that we haven't even thought about yet. Sure maybe the basic principle has been touched upon but we will not run out of fresh innovative ideas for years to come. Just think of what could be accomplished if the human mind used all of it's capacity! I look forward to the day when I will be able to enjoy such a time.

Go try and patented something.