I’m well aware of the phenomenon of “filing off the serial numbers” in fan fiction. (It’s pretty much impossible for any fan fiction author not to know about it, particularly in the wake of Fifty Shades of Grey.) To be quite honest, filed-off fan fiction tends not to be very good, and I often find myself turned off a bit by it. After all, one of the unspoken rules of fan fiction is that it’s always kept non-commercial; the very act of filing off the serial numbers violates that rule.
But I’ll admit it: every time I saw an advertisement for Mary E. Lowd’s Nexus Nine: a Tri-Galactic Trek Novel, it looked interesting. And recently, when I had some digital credits over at Amazon, I gave in and purchased it.
I’m not sorry. Not at all. Rather the reverse: I adored it.