That is exactly what my friend chocochan said when she heard that he doesn't approve of fanfic. How does he managed that, anyway? Is it not fanfic if the book in question is a classic? Or if the author is dead and there's not really a copyright holder anymore?
I would not be surprised if there's a whole lot of people who don't consider something "fanfic" if it's based on a classic. See also Jane Austen sequels, Gone with the Wind sequels, etc.
There are also at least two authors on the list of authors who disapprove of fanfiction who have written fairy tale retellings, which is at least a different degree of the same thing (Orson Scott Card's Enchantment and Robin McKinley's... well, almost everything, but we'll start with The Outlaws of Sherwood and Beauty and Deerskin and...).
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That is exactly what my friend
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There are also at least two authors on the list of authors who disapprove of fanfiction who have written fairy tale retellings, which is at least a different degree of the same thing (Orson Scott Card's Enchantment and Robin McKinley's... well, almost everything, but we'll start with The Outlaws of Sherwood and Beauty and Deerskin and...).
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Part of my own sheepish attitude is based on the fact that all my own books more or less qualify as Arthurian fanfic.
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That still doesn't excuse the classics-means-it's-not-fanfic people, though.