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Saying "It was a [[Fanfic]] episode," though, is not usually a compliment.
 
Some franchises -- such as ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' -- have actually turned fan fiction into a profit center by creating [[Tie -in Novel|Tie In Novels]]. These books are usually penned by young and upcoming authors, often former [[Fanfic]] writers, and represent an intermediate step between fan fiction and completely original fiction.
 
Although [[Fanfic]] exploded along with the Internet, it existed ''well'' before the Net did. Such luminaries as John Stuart Mill contributed unauthorized, original stories set in a fictional universe. Before medieval French troubadours were shipping [[Arthurian Legend|Launcelot and Guinevere]], the ancient Greeks were writing plays about relationships between characters in ''[[The Iliad (Literature)|The Iliad]]''. In [[Plato]]'s ''[[Symposium (Literature)|Symposium]]'' one character complains that a play by [[Aeschylus]] got the characterization of Achilles and Patroclus wrong. [[Slash Fic|Namely, that it got the]] [[Lover and Beloved]] dynamic backwards.
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See also [[Memetic Mutation]] and [[Shipping]]. Compare with other [[Fan Work]] forms, such as [[Fan Art]], [[Fan Vid]], and [[Fanime]]. See also the latest [[Sub Trope]] [[Literary Mash Ups]].
 
For fanfic-specific tropes see [[Fanfic Tropes]]. Of course, [[Fan Fic Recommendations|the hive mind have a few favorites.]] [[Horrible/Fanfic|And a few unfavourites.]] [[So Bad ItsIt's Good/Fanfic|Not to forget a few favorite unfavorites]], if that doesn't [[Logic Bomb|confuse you too much]]. [[Troper Works|Some here have even written a few.]] [[Fan Fics (Fanfic)|And here are some that people took the time to make a page for.]]
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=== Categories of Fanfics ===