New Wave

[altariel]

temeres has a fascinating couple of posts about a "new wave" in Blake's 7 fanfiction in the late 90s/early noughties: here and here. An interesting moment when people were meeting and discussing online but still (mostly) publishing in zines.

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[dolores-crane.livejournal.com]

But some at least were not new to the series, only new to fandom. They had been quietly nurturing their fannishness, alone and in private, for a decade or more, and this inevitably individuated their interpretation of the series. And these interpretations subsequently proved to be at odds with what fandom had been doing over that decade, hence the impulse to break away from the established fandom tradition.

This is a very convincing narrative. (I was new to the series, fwiw...)