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

In response to a market-moving piece of dystopian fan fiction fearmongering about AI, Citadel Securities put out its own brief on the historical precedent for AI’s impact and the improbability that the technology will render humans unemployable any more than the typewriter or the internet did. —Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026

One way to think about Christian apocryphal texts is as fan fiction written about the stories found in the New Testament. —Christy Cobb, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2026

Reid, looking for feedback, reskinned the story as Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes (Stucky) fan fiction — also known as the characters Captain America and his sidekick from Marvel Comics — and posted it on A03. —E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026

Why has Emerald Fennell adapted one of the more chasmic and ambitious tragedies in English literature into a poppy, gooey, thuddingly literal work of sexy fan fiction? —Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for fan fiction

• addiction
• affliction
• constriction
• conviction
• depiction
• eviction
• infliction
• nonfiction
• prediction
• restriction
• antifriction
• benediction