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2. As for "using worlds and characters created by others"....

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Sat Jan 3, 2026, 07:15 PM

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Well, that's a very long tradition. James by Percival Everett uses the characters and world from Huck Finn.
Christopher Nolan is releasing a film this month-- got Oscar written all over it-- based on Homer's Odyssey (as was Brother Where Are Thou, James Joyce's Ulysses, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, Circe by Madeline Miller, Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood... and I could go on and on).

This tradition allows different perspectives on immortal stories.

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