My essay: When Worlds Collide: Harry Potter Crossover Fanfiction

[thrihyrne]

I'd been holding off of posting my paper as it's under consideration for the inaugural edition of Distraction, an online journal focusing on critical studies on fan fiction. Due to a variety of factors, however, that edition has been pushed back and won't happen until after Lumos, so I've been given the okay to put it out in the public. So without further ado, here's my paper as it will be presented on Friday. If I get any feedback at the conference I may modify it a bit. My thanks to llembas for editing it for me a couple of months ago. I didn't code it; it's saved as a pdf. Go here to my non-adult HP page for the link and brief commentary.

Read and ruminate, should you be interested!

Comments

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

Very interesting! Incidentally, I have just read A J Hall's "Time Shall Not Mend", which is a HP/Lois McMaster Bujold crossover, and so good. The author managed a really impressive pastiche of Bujold's quite distinctive style. It was also a good example of something you mentioned in your article: where two sets of characters are in fact in the same universe without realising it(just, in this case, a thousand years apart). Pym as a secret Wizard was both amusing and alarmingly plausible. The only thing I didn't like was the nastily misogynist characterisation of Ellie Quinn, which was unnecessary and unpleasant, but that was irrelevant to the crossover aspect.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

How cool! I don't know the second author, but I'm sure a Google search would remedy that. I really think that the idea of the two universes pre-existing together is a fascinating one. Thanks for taking the time to look at my paper and drop me a line!

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

Bujold is incredibly good. She made hername with the Miles Vorkosigan series, which is space opera of the most intelligent and superior kind, both funny and profound, and has now written three excellent fantasies set in the same world, though not connected, which have the best invented religion that I have ever come across. Go read, go read!