From Paradise Lost to Harry Potter, Fanfiction Writers Reimagine the Classics
Though Derided by Critics as Copycat Art, It’s a Democratic Form of Crowdsourced Creativity
As Game of Thrones looks to its eighth season, the show—strictly speaking—is no longer filming the books of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. Of course, it is still using the characters, world, and settings that Martin established (though its sometimes-drastic departures from the source material have been the cause of controversy before). But as the show has passed the timeline covered in the published novels, it is writing its own narrative without the need to reference a pre-existing canon. The biggest franchise on television has become, …
