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Katie Fleming is a popular and well-known Canadian Tomb Raider fanfiction writer, with a professionally designed website [http://www.tombraiders.net/katie/MyTombRaiderStories.html] devoted to her fan fiction, various competitions and her library of in-game screenshots.  
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Katie Fleming is a popular and well-known Canadian Tomb Raider fanfiction writer, with a website [http://www.tombraiders.net/katie/MyTombRaiderStories.html] devoted to her fan fiction, various competitions and her library of in-game screenshots.  
  
 
==Stories==
 
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==Controversy==
There was some surprise at the inclusion of Katie in the "<i>[[Ten Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective|Ten Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective]]</i>" DVD in early 2007 and this sparked a debate across the fanfiction community, sections of which felt that this Eidos-approved documentary had ignored the contributions of the other award-winning authors active in the fandom (something that was largely out of Katie's control). The heavy-handed attempt by various semi-official TR fan sites to prevent fans questioning the choice of Katie as the representative of TR fan fiction blew up into controversy [http://www.indycroft.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1180898797],[http://community.livejournal.com/girl_gamers/3151977.html], [http://www.tombraiderwiki.com/index.php/Fan_Fiction]. However, at the time of writing (Sept 2008) the controversy has largely died away and the TR fandom takes a kindly view of Katie's good fortune. To give Katie the last word, on the GameTap DVD she said: "I started writing stories for me, but if other people enjoy them, well that just makes it a whole lot better."
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There was some surprise at the inclusion of Katie as the sole representative for fan fiction in the "''[[Ten Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective]]''" DVD. This sparked a debate across the fanfiction community, sections of which felt that this Eidos-approved documentary had ignored the contributions of the other award-winning authors active in the fandom (something that was largely out of Katie's control). The heavy-handed attempt by various semi-official TR fan sites to prevent fans questioning the choice of Katie as the representative of TR fan fiction blew up into controversy [http://www.indycroft.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1180898797],[http://community.livejournal.com/girl_gamers/3151977.html], [http://www.tombraiderwiki.com/index.php/Fan_Fiction].  
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At the time of writing (Sept 2008) the controversy has largely died away and the TR fandom takes a kindly view of Katie's good fortune. To give Katie the last word, on the GameTap DVD she said: "I started writing stories for me, but if other people enjoy them, well that just makes it a whole lot better."

Revision as of 12:33, 20 September 2008

Katie Fleming is a popular and well-known Canadian Tomb Raider fanfiction writer, with a website [1] devoted to her fan fiction, various competitions and her library of in-game screenshots.

Stories

  • The Evil House
  • Revenge of the Aztec Gods
  • Lara's Mansion - Death Trap?
  • Search for Delphi
  • Sweat, Strength, and Determination
  • A New World, a New Life
  • Run - and Don't Stop
  • The Lost City of Tsumeb
  • The Strenuous Escapade
  • Premonitions
  • Perilous Paradise
  • A Room in Waiting

Controversy

There was some surprise at the inclusion of Katie as the sole representative for fan fiction in the "Ten Years of Tomb Raider: A GameTap Retrospective" DVD. This sparked a debate across the fanfiction community, sections of which felt that this Eidos-approved documentary had ignored the contributions of the other award-winning authors active in the fandom (something that was largely out of Katie's control). The heavy-handed attempt by various semi-official TR fan sites to prevent fans questioning the choice of Katie as the representative of TR fan fiction blew up into controversy [2],[3], [4].

At the time of writing (Sept 2008) the controversy has largely died away and the TR fandom takes a kindly view of Katie's good fortune. To give Katie the last word, on the GameTap DVD she said: "I started writing stories for me, but if other people enjoy them, well that just makes it a whole lot better."