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fan fiction

 noun
     
fan fiction [uncountable]
stories that use characters or events from famous books, television programmes, or films, but which are written by a fan of the original book etc (=someone who likes it very much), not the book's real writer:
Most fan fiction websites acknowledge that their authors do not own the characters involved.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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