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My mother brought home the new Pern novel, Dragon's Kin, that McCaffrey co-wrote with her son Todd. It's different enough from the others that it kind of reads like fanfic - hilarious considering she forbids the publication and distribution of fic. At first I was totally into it. No matter how ridiculous and downright bad I know the series to be, reading a Pern novel is like going home, just as reading a Xanth novel or watching an ep of TOS is - the universes are so familiar, so comfortable I can slip back into them effortlessly. It's been years since I picked up a Pern novel but it came back within minutes of reading the first page of Dragon's Kin - all the afternoons and nights I spent dreaming about riding dragons, going to gathers, fighting thread and having adventures with Lessa, F'lar, Jaxom and Menolly. Revisiting an old fandom is such the best way of revisiting your childhood.

It's too bad that McCaffrey is so deeply opposed to fanfic because I have the greatest idea for a Pern horror story. *sigh* Crazy dragons, man. It's all about the crazy dragons.

Question: what are your childhood fandoms and how do you relate to them now? Are you embarrassed or warmed by revisiting them?

And a side note: favourite horror fic? I'm deeply fond of X-Mansion by Dr. Benway. So creepy. So funny. So everything horror should be.