Fanfiction Thread

I’ve written a lot of fan fiction (well over 200 stories of various lengths) that I post on my own website:

http://www.thehazugfiles.uk/Index.htm

I’ve written stories set in the following:

– Warhammer 40k

– Star Wars. Various sets set in the Classic era, Tales of the Jedi era and more recently some set about 250 years before the Battle of Yavin (note that this is totally unrelated to Disney’s High Republic, I started mine about 4 years ago and had been planning it before then).

– Star Trek, currently following on from the TNG era but I will also be adding some in the movie era eventually.

– Aliens, following on from Alien 3.

– Space:1999. This is a reimagining of the old TV series and is called Space:2299.

Except for the last of these that adapts characters from the original Space:1999 I use original characters that I can have total control over without violating the official canon. Although Yoda is in some parts of my Star Wars 250BBY fiction he does not play an active role in events.

I’ve also written some stories based on the Cthulhu Mythos as well as some totally original writing that is also on my website.

Lengthwise the stories vary. Most of the Star Wars ones are about 12,000 words each. There are also a few short Warhammer 40k ones but largely the others are either about 30,000 words long or 60,000 words and over for what I term ‘full length’. They are presented in a mix of online html and downloadable pdfs. I’m trying to switch over entirely to pdfs  but that might take a while.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by StephenDutton.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>I come from a country where fanfiction wasn’t a big thing back in the 80s. It was considered as plagiarism and ripping off. But the urge to write was always there. And writing quests for RPGs taught me a lot. (Is writing a quest for an already existing RPG not also a kind of fanfiction?)</p>
Seven years ago I started my career as a full time author and I never regreted it. And yeah – English is not my native language – so don’t worry, I am not writing in English ;D .

I have written all kind of stuff. my first horror novel was this:

Comercially not my most successful work but quite okay.

If you have any questions or contact to the film industry let me know :) .

@StephenDutton I read your first installment of Space:2299

I like how you spent only a minimal time on details/descriptions (settings, outfits, personality, etc) and used the space for dialogue to move the story forward.

I do not know if this was because it was expected people already know those details, but it also leaves room to expand on in future chapters.

This first installment also had set up plenty of future store lines/plots.  Multiple moon bases, a civilian/tourist population on the moon, civilian spaceships, alien tech and the alien threat as well as the separatists cells, etc.

Eventually, I will read the other chapters.

As it is fanfiction, I can easily see why we did not need to get details that are known to the fans Space:1999.

Eventually, as we move away from the more familiar to the unfamiliar, more details will be given to the unfamiliar.

I had to keep reminding myself of the new ranks, as I am so used to it being Commander John Koenig rather than his new rank.

Can’t wait till I read the next chapter… hopefully soon as I am busy at the moment.

Thanks.

I knew I wanted to use Maya (I writing that as her only name, I don’t recall any other being used in the TV show) and decided to bring her in early. I wasn’t happy about a shape shifter though and didn’t want to duplicate Professor Bergman’s role so I altered her more than any other character I think. Her role will change slightly later on as she looks to become more involved with life on the moon but the way I have changed her will allow the inhabitants of the moon to communicate with other aliens they encounter more believably than if they all happened to speak English.

The Dorcons are very loosely based on the TV show where they appeared in one episode. In that they were enemies of the Psychons but in keeping with most of the aliens in TV shows at the time they looked human and that was something I wanted to change. The appearance of the Dorcons and their ships was something I considered that needed to be described.

I do plan on using other species later on, some hostile, some not.

I do get the stories proof read, obviously this isn’t perfect but it’s much better than my drafts. Right now I’m sitting on a huge mound of material I don’t want to post because I haven’t been able to get it checked.

03 – The Deal on Offer

Nice touch of humour.  I was not expected it when I did.  Nicely done.

Another connection:  Just like how everyone in the original Battlestar Galactica knew and hated Baltar, Keynes now fits that role.  The distrust and open hostility was well written.

But I understanding the need to bring in new characters (your own).

And just like Maya, I would have held back on her interaction for a later episode, and her helping with her skills.  Getting us to know the main/other characters better.  Showing how badly they needed her skillset on the moon more, before they got to this point in time.

We got to learn more about the Dorcons.  Thinking the worst always.  Everyone is against them.  Only advancements is by …. sorry no spoilers.  LOL

So I don’t know yet if this is a natural characteristics of the Dorcons, or as a result of their interaction with the Outsiders.  Once again, this not being revealed leaves the reader(s) wanting to know more.  Giving us new information and just enough to keep the readers hooked is great.  Nice job there.

The one thing here is that, unlike the previous chapters, the moon does not leave this solar system… yet.

Is there a part two to this story/setting?  Was that section/line missing?

Each so far has ended with the moon entering a new jump/wormhole, so the next one will be in a new location, new story, etc.

Like Sliders or Lost In Space, we ended the episode with them leaving the old.  New episodes the moon traveling/arriving to a new place, new story, etc.

Without jumping ahead, it does leave one wondering.  Was there more?  Is this more?

So far, I have seen that all your Space:2299 stories are about the same length (page wise).  Is that by choice, or a co-incidence?  Or a rule that fan-fiction cannot exceed x-page count?

Also, by including that cover page (the same for the first three episodes so far), are we to infer those images are the main cast/whom you pictured them to be?

We had already made it clear to the fans/those reading the Space:2299 that:

We need a Lagrange point to form a wormhole and they only come about when
there’s something big enough to create one around. Two somethings in fact.

And so far, the effects between wormholes we had a max at seventy-two hours (approx three days).

So with this latest chapter, we get no sure wormholes, just as you said in your post, but not to the readers.

04: Manhunt

IIRC, to get a court martial trial would take one week, so this episode the time between wormholes must be larger than that, in order to get those involved time.  Right after a jump, all personnel are more concerned about where they are, what they might face, what time do they have before the next jump, etc.  that time for a trial is out of the question.

So if we are currently in a dual star system, or a star and a gas giant, etc. where we have enough time for a trial is never explained.  And yes, you did explain this in a reply, but not to the readers.

This is something for continuity should be included/addressed to the readers, IMO.

And this episode felt more like a James Bond story (espionage) than sci-fi.  And other than episode one, we have been spending alot of time with Tony, and not John.  So expecting more military action off the moonbase (the Dorcon and Outsiders) and on the moon (Red Mars) was expected.

And Maya feels more like Deanna Troi (ST:TNG) in this episode than ever.  A non-human empath who can detect the feels of another, and to a limited extent communicate mentally at another (implant strong suggestions).  I do hope that the more we get to learn of Maya, that feeling that she is a unique character/qualities grows.  But this episode, to me, did not do that for me.

But one of the things this episode did show, and show strongly, is how interconnected all the bases and persons on the moon are.

From travel tubes, to communication nodes, to parcel transfers, to food productions, etc.

So it is a race to see if the humans will be destroyed from within or without first.

Or if they can unify before that against a common enemy.  Just like how the Dorcons and humans to unity against the Outsiders, but that is for another time.

And with the expanded number of people stuck on the moon, the loss of life can more easily happen/be explained away.  So I hope we will get some episodes where we are death-free.  But even so, with limited resources, John had to use Keynes, and in time maybe the need to use those incarcerated as well., be they the humans and/or Dorcons.  Only time will tell.