I have heard many denigrating remarks made about fanfic, the most common being "A REAL author wouldn't have to steal somebody else's character/world..." What many detractors don't really understand is that fanfic has an entirely different purpose than original fiction.

Fanfic arises out of an emotional need. People get very attached to a character or a world and they want MORE than they are getting. Most of them would rather read fanfic than write it, but the fanfic environment is based on a sort of mutually cooperative `I'll write some for you if you'll write some for me'. Why is fanfic necessary? Sometimes the author is dead and there is no more to be had from that quarter (example: Sherlock Holmes). Sometimes people want a story that is emotionally more intense than the original media can support (lots of slash Trek stuff, for example). Or they get lost in a lovely "what if" fantasy and want to share it with others. Or sometimes, as "Dr. Merlin" points out in her essay on fanfic, they just want FAN MAIL!

Everyone seems to have their own unique tastes in fanfic, though the differences between them may seem almost undetectable to the outside observer. Many new terms have grown up to describe these tastes (h/c, slash, shipper) so that one can easily locate stories to suit one's own preferences.

Fanfic is written for TV shows, books, comic books, movies and many other media. I've searched around and found many links to fanfic of various sorts. I do not vouch for the quality of any of the stories here, as I haven't read them all (nor do I expect to) but I will try to warn you if any of them are of the risque variety :) If I miss any please let me know.

Also, I'm sure there are a lot of duplications here (sites which point to sites which I already have, etc) so please let me know if anything like that jumps out at you. Also, though I tried to separate the fanfic sites out by subject, fanfic seems to run in packs. Be sure to check the miscellaneous section for pages with many different types of fanfic.

X-Files

X-Files Web Ring

A complex archive of x-files fanfic.

Has author links, web and FTP sites, a lost-and-found for fanfic and actor news.

Homepage for an open mailing list for the distribution of X-Files fanfic.

Romantic X-files fanfic home page.

Shipper friendly, links to x-files sites.

X-Files fanfic pages listed with Yahoo.

Has archives, an authors' corner and webpage links. XAngst club home page.

Gossamer's G-rated x-files site.

Forever Knight, Dark Shadows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kindred

Forever Knight site - fairly complete, "over 1,400 selections")
A. C. Chapin's Forever Knight fanfic (has a Batman crossover)
Forever Knight fanfic archive
Nancy's Dark Shadows page
SunS Buffy fanfic
The Slayer's Fanfic Archive (Buffy)
Tasha's links (Kindred, others)
Kindred: The Embraced fanfic

Highlander

Highlander fanfic archive FTP site
Criss' Highlander fanfic page (R)
Highlander web ring
Sandra McDonald's Highlander fanfic
Highlander fanfic
Highlander: The Fanfic Season
Carol Lucchesi's Highlander fanfic
Troth Highlander fanfic site
Tasha's links (Highlander, others)
Sophie's Highlander fanfic, with link to The Television Web Ring

Star Trek, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, Babylon 5, Star Wars

Torra's Trek, Sinbad, Paris/Torres and lots of other fanfic
Yahoo's Star Trek fanfic
Mining Company's Star Trek guide
Star Trek Creative area menu
The Definitive Guide to Star Trek Fan Fiction on the Web
Star Trek: Door Repair Guy
Trek Writer's Guild
Ariane's Trek fanfic
Katie's Star Trek Site Web ring
TrekNews Trek online fanfic zine
Voyager Sites

Babylon 5 fanfic
Alexei's archive of Babylon 5 fanfic
Star Wars fanfic

Xena, Hercules, He-Man, Clark & Lois

Deb U Hercules & Xena fanfic
Xena fan fiction
He-Man and Masters of the Universe Homepage
Margaret's Clark and Lois fanfic
Lois & Clark fanfic (TV show)

Gargoyles

Gargoyles Ring of Power (webring)
Gargoyles fanfic
Chris Rogers' Gargoyles page
Dreamscape's Gargoyles fanfic
Gargoyles Links & fanfic

XMen, comics

The X (Xmen fanfic)
Mash's Xmen fan fiction
Kerrin's X-men fanfic
Kielle's CFAN Comic-Book Fanfic Authors' Network
XPage X-men fanfic
Gen-X (X men) fanfic

Literature based fanfic (Sherlock Holmes, Pern, Sime-Gen)

Lady of Shallot's Sherlock Holmes fanfic page
JoAnne Soper-Cook's fanfic page (Sherlock Holmes, Trek, vampire)
Holmesian Pastiches
Pern fanfic clubs
Jacqueline Lichtenberg's Sime-Gen fanfic universe, and the Zeor Visitor's Center

Anime Fanfic

Lee Chun Kwok's Ranma links and fanfic
Quidius Master's anime fanfic library
zips.uakron.edu/~wpk/ Kunoichi's Ranma fanfic (anime)
Andy Skuse's Bubblegum Crisis fanfic
Yahoo's Sailor Moon fanfic
Readers' Choice Ranma 1/2 fanfic awards
Paladar's World of Fanfic (MMPR and Sailor Moon, links to Power Rangers)
Penguin Global's Village Links (anime)
Evangelion Fanfic Review Syndicate
Ottowa Sailor Moon Club fanfic library
Twister's anime fanfic
Blackmoon's anime page
Argwath's anime fanfic links
AniPike's list of anime fanfic
T. Butler's FFML Fun Citiques anime fanfic
Gatchaman fanfic FAQ
Jack's anime fanfic (Ranma, Bubblegum, others)
Lots of various anime fanfic (some slash)
Nerv's Evangelion fanfic
Anime-Trek fanfic, crossovers
Eyrie publications fanfic (anime)
Nabiki anime fanfic
Yahoo's anime fanfic
Yoo Chung's guide to fanfic at the rec.arts.anime.creative FTP fanfic archive directory
Best of Ranma fanfic awards
Demon Stalker's anime stories archive
Daemon Fics anime fanfics
Sailor Callistos' anime fanfic page
Zen's Ranma fanfic
Dot's fan fiction page (Dragon Ball, Ranma, Sailor Moon)
Tuxedo Will's GSCP anime fanfiction
bECCA-ONEECHAN'S anime obsession site
Bailesu's anime (Sailor Moon, Ranma, etc) fanfic page
Neon Genesis Evangelion page
Webdragon's Ranma fanfic
Jupiter Knight's Sailor Moon fanfic page (takes outside submissions)
Joan's Fanfic Junkie links (Sailor Moon, Avengers, a few others)
Home of the Fanfic Mailing List (anime & manga)
Edwyn Tiong's anime fanfic (Bubblegum, Sailor Moon, other)
Sea Wasp's anime fanfic
Selected Fanfics from AnimeNet

Some Sailor Moon, Kimagure Orange Road and Fushigi Yuugi.

Transformers, Ronin Warriors, Power Rangers, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs

Charl's Transformers fanfic
Transformers fanfic
(?) Dreams & Visions Transformers fanfic
Transformers fanfic
Suz's Transformers fanfic
Power Rangers Mania fanfic & links
Ronin Warriors fanfic links
The Fanfic Shoppe (Power Rangers)
Tiny Toons fan fiction archive
Eric42's Tiny Toons fanfic
Animaniacs ring

Video games, role playing games

Sputnik'sFanfics For The Mind (Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy 7 - games)
The Video Game fanfiction web ring
Fan Link fanfic (mostly video/computer games)
Dreamlover's Dreamlover's Video Game Fanfiction Ring and Street Fighter fanfic
Final Fantasy Fanfic Webring
Palladium Web Ring (Palladium Books role playing games - Rifts, Nightspawn, Bane, Robotech, etc)

Miscellaneous fanfic

Dr. Who - a really incredible list of links, fanfic, etc
Gavin Grieg's Dr. Who fanfic site
The Official BlackAdder fanfic archive
Laura Picken's's Unofficial Touched By An Angel fanfic page
Webring for Touched By An Angel, Promised Land and Early Edition
Friends fanfic scripts
Friends scripts and fanfic
Poltergeist: The Legacy page
Blake 7 site
Silk Stalkings fanfic
Silk Stalkings Media fanfic
Sliders' web ring
Kyrie Daniel's Sliders & Tomorrow People fanfic
California Dreams fanfic
The Sentinal fanfic & links
Becky's Sentinal fanfic page
Ned & Lois fanfic

Mixed genre fanfic pages

Peter Gallacher's Unofficial Ultimate Usenet Fan Fiction Achievement Awards (Trek, Dr. Who, Quantum Leap, comics, xFiles)
Arthur's fanfic page (a truly impressively huge list of links)
Entertainment Weekly TV fanfic
Timeline's Fan Fiction Page (just about everything)
Sheila Lane's fanfic (Trek, Highlander, Seaquest, Buffy, Power Rangers, crossovers)
Chaos mailing list site - houses several fanfic mailing lists (X-files, Early Edition, Millennium)
MISTings (trek, many others)
Jimbo's Fan Fiction page (B5, Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Beauty & the Beast, Blake 7, Dr. Who, Earth 2, Friends, Lois & Clark, MacGyver, Quantun Leap, SeaQuest, Sliders, Star Wars, Tomorrow People, V, X-files)
Fanfic World (TV, Soaps, Movies, Caroline in the City, Star Trek, Anime)
Links to various fanfic
Magik's fanfic links (Xmen, Voyager, California Dreams, Star Wars, Buffy, Crow, Labyrinth)
Fanfic Resources is the most comprehensive site I've found yet. They have it all alphabetized and everything :)
Lots of fanfic links (TV shows, comics, just about everything)
Yahoo's Fanfic
Mandi's Fan Fiction (Tomorrow People, Gargoyles, Power Rangers, Stargate, several crossovers, some links)
Karen Nicholas' Fan Fiction sites (lots of links)
V Foster's site (Highlander, Forever Knight, Star Wars, Buffy, X-Files)
Writer's Corner has links to creative writing resources, especially concentrating on fanfic
Lady Phoenix's fanfic page (X-men, Xena, NC-17)
Serpent's Lair links to Transformers, Trek, Gargoyles, a few others
Fanfic Resources - listing of fanfic websites, fanzines, etc
Dead Zone pages of TV series, TV movies, and SF, Fantasy & Horror (there's fanfic here but your have to work to find it :)
The Television Fanfic Webring
     A web ring that encompasses all TV shows
Tara O'Shea's Fan Fiction Library
     Contains Galaxy Rangers, Earth 2, Forever Knight, Gargoyles, Highlander, Nikita, Trek, X-files
Nic's Fan Fiction Page
     Fanfic for Earth 2, X-files, seaQuest, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Voyager
Vyola's Corner
     The Sentinal, Highlander, Voyager, Hercules
Tangles Web Crossovers website
     X-files, Angel, B&Beast, Gargoyles, Trek, XMen
Thiago's Trek/B5/X-files/V page

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