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fan fiction
noun
: stories involving popular fictional characters that are written by fans and often posted on the Internet
called also fanfic
Examples of fan fiction in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Speaking of fan fiction, people are looking for Mr. Johnson to have a love interest soon.
—Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2024
Plenty have judged The Idea of You before even seeing it, labeling it Harry Styles fan fiction with a derisive snort.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 May 2024
That penchant for dramatizing reality—for taking one set of events or characters and inventing new contexts for them—would eventually lead Kuang to fan fiction (both as a writer and a reader), and, later, adapting books.
—Maya Layne, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2024
Exactly how fan fiction’s next decade will shake out, though?
—Elizabeth Minkel, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2024
Calling Esther fan fiction can teach modern readers something about the celebration of Purim – and about storytelling itself.
—Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
For the average chatbot user, who may utilize AI to craft emails at work and Rick and Morty fan fiction at home, the basic versions of ChatGPT and Gemini are free, competent, and wildly more powerful than anything available in the recent past.
—Reece Rogers, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
Like many popular fan fiction stories, Manacled has spawned a fandom of its own.
—Elizabeth Minkel, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2024
Could it be confused by Internet fan fiction relating to the characters in the book?
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1939, in the meaning defined above
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“Fan fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fan%20fiction. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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