Japan's original fiction, according to legend, involved the sun goddess, Amaterasu, retreating into a cave and plunging the world into darkness.

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Gollancz Editor Marcus Gipps and Orion Deputy Publisher Jon Wood were both fans of the original game and had already discussed with ELITE co-creator David Braben the possibility of publishing original ELITE fiction.

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Fan fiction is essentially stories about original works written by fans, rather than by the original creator.

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Sorvino's boyfriend is Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino, probably the original Hong Kong film junkie in the American entertainment industry.

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Then he stumbled upon Deep Space Nine on video and memories flooded back of how much he loved science fiction as a kid, in particular the original Star Trek series (which was shown in his native France only in the 1980s, when Halter was in his twenties).

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Tarantino won the original screenplay prize for Django Unchained, adding to the Oscar he won for writing Pulp Fiction in 1994.

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Indeed, his original enchantment with astronomy came at age 12, from Tom Swift books and the TV series Science Fiction Theater.

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Annie Proulx has said that fan fiction inspired by her "Brokeback Mountain" is written by people who don't understand either the original story or intellectual property rights.

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