For the fanfic panel I'm on at the worldcon:

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What fanfic were you reading / writing in these decades (fandoms, favourite ships etc.) and links to stories if possible please?

1. 1960s
2. 70s
3. 80s
4. 80s
5. 90s
6. 90s
7. 2000s
8. Nowish

For example, I know Professionals and Blake's 7 were big in the UK in the 1970s-80s, but I wouldn't know where to look for examples of period writing.

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[eledonecirrhosa.livejournal.com]

70s - I wrote Silver Brumby and Watership Down stories. Though I was completely unaware I was writing fanfic, as I had never heard of the term...

80s - writing and reading Dr Who and Blake's 7 fanfic, mostly in paper fanzines like Cygnus Alpha and Space Rat. I started writing Strontium Dog fanfic back then, and read/wrote a bit of Judge Dredd (mostly spoofs).

90s - started my own Strontium Dog/2000ad fanzine, Dogbreath. The early issues are now available online here. (http://thequaequamblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/dogbreath-volume-01-archive.html) The 90s was also my first encounter with Dragonriders of Pern fanfic, and I dipped in and out of various telly fandoms as a reader.

2000s - got really into Dragonriders of Pern fanfic via Kadanzer Weyr (http://www.kadanzer.org/index.php) You'll find a bunch of my stories under the 'public stories' page, name Kear. I also continued Dogbreath until issue 14 and then handed over the running of the zine to the next generation! As a reader I dipped in and out of various TV show fanfic sites and read a fair bit of Wraeththu fanfic (based on the Storm Constantine novels). The best of those actually get made 'official' and published in dead tree format by Immanion Press (http://www.immanion-press.com/info/book.asp?id=396)

Nowish - not following anything in particular as a reader, just dipping in and out of stuff that friends point me at. Since the demise of Kadanzer Weyr I've not really been writing much. There are plans afoot to create a new Weyr story group, but all those involved keep getting attacked by real life and watching their time/thuses evaporate. :-(

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Thanks! I've given others on the panel a link to this thread, so hopefully it'll give us all some ideas for discussion.

[eledonecirrhosa.livejournal.com]

What time is the fanfic panel scheduled for?

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Apologies, I somehow missed noticing you'd commented

Fanfiction Through The Decades - Friday 12:00 - 13:00

Fanfiction as it is broadly understood began with Kirk and Spock. In the first years it was relatively hard to come by unless you moved in the right circles; most people had no idea it even existed. Today it is not unusual for it to be discussed in the mainstream media. Over the decades not only has the ease and accessibility of fanfiction increased but so to has the variety of material that inspires it, the type of stories written, and the styles they are written in. In this drop-in session we will revisit long since forgotten fandoms and encounter new ones while exploring the literary changes in fanfiction. During the session you can try and guess when a story was written and from what fandom it came, discuss the evolution and changes in fanfiction with the experienced readers and writers of fanfiction or simply read some of the stories we will have on hand.

Erin Horakova, Jo Charman, Katherine Jay, Maree Pavletich, Marcus Rowland, Douglas Spencer, Katharine Woods, JY Yang

There are lots of other fanfic panels, I think.