Real Person Fiction - Timeline

Timeline

The following is a timeline of events in the Real Person Fan fiction community:

• 1976 - the Star Trek fanfic anthology New Voyages (Bantam) prints "Visit to a Weird Planet, Revisited" a sequel to the 1968 story "Visit to a Weird Planet," which had appeared in the fanzine Spockanalia 3. In the original, Star Trek characters Kirk, Spock and McCoy are involved in a transporter accident and are transported to a Burbank soundstage. In the sequel, we learn the fates of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley, who were transported to the Starship Enterprise. The New Voyages is particularly noteworthy because up until that time, Star Trek fanfiction was published only in small fanzines like Spockanlia, and known only to hardcore Trek fans. The New Voyages was a mass market paperback, available to all readers, and since its stories were introduced by Star Trek actors, it merged Star Trek fans into mainstream science fiction readers and vice versa.
• From 1977 to 1983, Led Zeppelin slash fan fiction begins to circulate in fanzines. The early zines used the names Tris and Alex, or Allyn Sterling/Derek Quinn instead of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.
• Early 1980s - Star Wars stories are published in which Harrison Ford meets Han Solo.
• 1980s - numerous Duran Duran and other bandfic authors began to write in isolation, spurred by MTV
• 1984 - Elliot Roosevelt published the first of his detective novels starring his mother Eleanor.
• 1991 - Duran Duran slash and het fic begins to be circulated in fanzines including UMF (issues of which are archived at The Lovely Blue Planet of There). According to Sidewinder, Duran Duran zine people said that Duran Duran were aware of the fan fiction. Sidewinder also notes that the RPF people at the time did not seem to come from the same community as "traditional fan fiction fans" were coming from.
• March, 1993 - The Nifty Archive came on-line, a repository of boy band and celebrity erotica.
• October 15, 1998 - FanFiction.Net enacts a policy specifically forbidding ActorSlash.