What do Gossip Girl , The Vampire Diaries , and Slaughterhouse - Five all have in common ? Well , now citizenry can spell and trade completely legal devotee fiction based on each of them , thanks to Amazon ’s Kindle Worlds program . This can not end well .
Amazon announced that the integral Vonnegut library would be joining the Worlds service , which admit people to compose tale using the fibre , preferences and everything else , while divvying up the money among the writers , the permission holders , and of course Amazon itself . In theory , the melodic theme is strong , andas I mentioned when Amazon first announced the service , it ’s a great way to bring fans and a enfranchisement together and make everybody a bit of money at the same prison term .
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But Kurt Vonnegut ? FUCK AND NO . The piece is one of America ’s literary icons . To allow fan fiction establish on his work is a shame to it , because while someone might write a Vampire Diaries narration as estimable as the original Vampire Diaries generator , there is no blessed way anyone is die to spell a level star Kurt Vonnegut ’s characters as well as Vonnegut did .
This is just as mad as if the works of William Faulkner , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott Fitzgerald , Harper Lee or J.D. Salinger were added to the Kindle Worlds syllabus — and just in casing Amazon somehow thinks that ’s a good idea , IT ’S NOT . DON’T DO IT .
Amazon , you may impart so much else to your program without maculate the works of one of America ’s greatest authors — or without tarnishing the kit and boodle of any enceinte author . You have so many perfectly acceptable candidates to select from that there ’s no way you ’ll stick out without lease somebody write about Billy Pilgrim turning out to be Gossip Girl , fine ?
Here ’s a tip — if you betray it in your“Classic Literature and Fiction ” section , maybe multitude should n’t be capable to write sound rooter fic of it , all right-hand ?
[ ViaL.A. Times ]
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