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Well, it has been a looooong time since I posted in here. Been rather busy and what not. But I remember posting my story and wanting it to be an spin off novel of sorts. Seeing how it would never be accepted and the fact that I have no credit to my name to even dare publish the darn thing....I wonder if I should just put it back online as a fan fic.

For those that don't remember (or don't care..heh!), it was a story about another Blade Runner Unit in Neo-New York that takes place 25 years after Deckard's story. It was titled "Blade Runner: Second Unit"

Personally, I think I'm Ok now with it being nothing more then a fan fic. Probably might help to hone my writing skills even more as I try to come up with something original.

I'd be more than happy to host it on my website if your interested. Or, if you put it on your own website, I can post a link to it in my "Related Links" section.

KippleZone is a Blade Runner/DADoES fan-fiction website.

Cheers!

I might do that Kipple thanks for the offer. I'm also designing a Photoshop cover for the story. Just a mish-mash of images really. But something to get a visual anyway.

Well here's the cover of my Fan Fic....And I made a mistake about it being set 25 years after Deckard's story. It's 20 years.

Looks GREAT!

I've put up the story on fan fiction.net again. It's rated M for Mature. The only proper rating I can give it.

IF you want to link with it (and use my cover art) on your site Kipple...you have my permission to do so. That cool?


The link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2785565/1/

I hope you all get a chance to read it too. I know the first bit can be a bit boring...but this was aimed at being a novel not a quick story adaptation.

The dude looks like Michael Dorn! (AKA Worf from Star Trek)

Nice cover. Try staying away from the label "fan fiction". It just sounds cheap and....knock-off-ish. For all we care, it's a full-blown Blade Runner addition. I'm too critical about labels like fanfilms and fanfiction, so you'll probably just have to ignore me. lol.

7 more posts to go until my magic number

THX1138 wrote: "...so you'll probably just have to ignore me. lol. "

I think the terms "Fanfiction" and "Fanfilm"...were just to save from lawsuits and copyright infringements.

http://www.aviatorpictures.com/
Batman vs Robocop...need I say more? Okay, if you dont't beleive me, hop on over to that site. Robocop is vastly underweight, and Batman just looks so god awful. Points for trying, but no points for creativity.

http://www.collorastudios.com/projects/bde/bdemain.htm
A nice start...until the Alien and Predators jump into the story. Yes, the Alien from Alien/Aliens and the Predator from Predator/Predator 2/AVP. Nice beginning, a fight between an awsome-looking batman and a great Joker...but it goes down the shitter when the aliens come in. There's no story to it at all!

See where I'm going with this? People use the term "fanfilm" and "fanfiction" as a way to get around licensing issues and copyright infringement...but they also use it as a license to totally destroy a good franchise. Star Wars has gotten so bad, Lucasfilm has devided Star Wars into 2 divisions: Star Wars movies and Star Wars: Expanded Universe. Expanded Universe is unofficial and/or stuff that conflicts with the movies. I think I said this in another post. I'm all for fanfilms and fanart and fanstories. But I'm also a big believer in being creative (just look at my signature quote). Being creative and being an innovator. You aren't being creative by standing on the shoulders of what others have done. Granted, we all want to see more from the world of Blade Runner. That's where the fanfilms and fanfiction step in. But when people use the "fan" term as a license to totally change the way the original product was meant to be, that's what I have a problem with. Stay true to the original, and don't be cheesy, that's all I ask.

Perhapse I should just start a blog. (<-- I'm just going to keep on saying this, and about the 100th time I say this I'll actually start one)

Sooooo your calling me cheesy?

I'm saying you're above cheesy, so you gotta find a non-cheesy name for it. "Blade Runner Fiction" (cetainly wouldnt be Blade Runner Non-Fiction now, would it?) Or collective stories. Or Open Fiction.

Got a new chapter up.

Let me add to your observation there THX...(which isn't really an original name now is it? )

Granted...fan fic is standing on the shoulders of others work. But how else can one begin but to build on that foundation and spawn off onto something new. Blade Runner itself isn't really original...you can see the influences of other sci fi and horror genre in the theme. In a way, his work is pretty much a fan fiction of other types of literature. I see bits of Frankenstien, Metropolis, gumshoe cop stories, and even some shakespeare. A fan of their works and building on their models to create a story of his own. Writers have this tendancy to think they're being oh so original...when there's nothing to be original about. It's all been said, it's all been done, but...these writers are taking bits and peices of their favorite books and creating a story based on those themes.

Their fiction is taken from other fiction they've read in the past...and reshaping it to make it their own. I see all writers as fan fiction writers. It's what the do with that story that makes it their own.

I want to say thanks to Kipple for putting the link on his Website. Glad someone likes enough for that. Heh!