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Posted By: ErnieDate: 2/24/02 9:43 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Comming soon: REAL Marathon fanfiction (darky)

Ray Bradbury? Nope.. what has he wrote?

As far as a ongoing Marathon fanfiction story... ehhh.....

I don't mean to sound iffy, but a ongoing story could risk falling into the traditional Scifi-FPS fan fic durge.

What durge is this you ask?

The one where (ive seen it with Doom fan fic <LOL>) where the battles become the focus of everything; causing indepth descriptions or references only a [insert fan type here] would understand.

I know that Doom fan fic is a bad example, but its the only true case of a story being based solely upon a FPS game I know, regardless of how indepth the story of the game itsself is.

A good example I would say is the Halo: FoR novel. Not being fan fiction, it's understandable that M$ and Bungie took threatened (I assume) violence if the story became too "im-reloading-my gun-as-the-blood-splashs-upon-my-face" ish; therefore not a good read for your average joe.

Your other point mentioning how a story written for people who don't know Marathon does require some tedious background information to be worked in somewhere is true.
I countered this issue with my oneshot Marathon-based story by explaining much of the vital background via Durandal's initial term. message [sprinkled with Durandal-esk commentary like "In case you were asleep during our previous adventures. . ." ].

I do wish you the best of luck with your "Marathon Chronicles".

-Ernie

: But The Wasp Factory rules.

: Incidently, I was thinking about undertaking a Marathon fanfiction project of
: my own. The idea occured to me when I was a member of another fanfiction
: forum (a nintendo one if you must know...). But the immediate problem was
: that I was the only person who knew the Marathon story, so anything I
: wrote would involve a tedious amount of explaining, and little room for
: creactivity. Then I had a moment of clarity. What was my brilliant idea?
: Well, let me just ask: Any fans?

: I was going to call it "The Marathon Chronicles." Think about it.

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Replies:

Comming soon: REAL Marathon fanfictionErnie TMBM 2/22/02 6:55 p.m.
     A request to the community at large...Ernie 2/22/02 9:16 p.m.
           Re: A request to the community at large...Mark Levin 2/23/02 12:36 a.m.
                 Uh, Mark?Ernie TMBM 2/23/02 11:15 a.m.
                       Re: Uh, Mark?Mark Levin 2/23/02 11:46 a.m.
                             Re: Uh, Mark?Hamish Sinclair 2/23/02 12:51 p.m.
                                   Re: Uh, Mark?Rincewind MoG 2/23/02 3:21 p.m.
     Re: Comming soon: REAL Marathon fanfictionD-M.A. 2/23/02 2:20 a.m.
           Re: Comming soon: REAL Marathon fanfictiondarky 2/23/02 4:41 p.m.
                 Well...Ernie 2/24/02 9:43 p.m.
                       Re: Well...darky 2/25/02 12:30 p.m.
                             Re: Well...Tru7h 2/25/02 2:57 p.m.



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