There are some fabulous literary fanfic Sherlock Holmes books out there that I enjoyed, even though I'm fanatical in the extreme about Holmes.
Michael and Mollie Hardwicke and Nicholas Meyer spring immediately to mind. How can you NOT love "The Seven-Percent Solution" even if you totally don't buy it? "The West End Horror" is even better and so very true to the spirit of the original, though the Hardwicke's do better with the style.
And the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", the comics. Fantastic. How fun to see them all again through a different lens.
The best literary fanfic does this. It just gives us all more adventures like the original we loved. If it's too canon-bending, though (And I'm guilty of this as much as anyone.) I really don't think it's as effective as the stuff that stays closer to the mark. Not so much a value judgement or a squick, but a "one of these things is not like the other" issue.
And most regency romance novels are still people trying to do Austen and failing, IMHO.
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Date: 2004-01-22 04:35 pm (UTC)Michael and Mollie Hardwicke and Nicholas Meyer spring immediately to mind. How can you NOT love "The Seven-Percent Solution" even if you totally don't buy it? "The West End Horror" is even better and so very true to the spirit of the original, though the Hardwicke's do better with the style.
And the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", the comics. Fantastic. How fun to see them all again through a different lens.
The best literary fanfic does this. It just gives us all more adventures like the original we loved. If it's too canon-bending, though (And I'm guilty of this as much as anyone.) I really don't think it's as effective as the stuff that stays closer to the mark. Not so much a value judgement or a squick, but a "one of these things is not like the other" issue.
And most regency romance novels are still people trying to do Austen and failing, IMHO.