The wind done gone
A Novel
by Alice Randall · first published 2001
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In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in GONE WITH THE WIND, a work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Taking sharp aim at the romanticized, whitewashed mythology perpetrated by this southern classic, Randall has ingeniously conceived a multilayered, emotionally complex tale of her own - that of Cynara, the mulatto half-sister, who, beautiful and brown and born into slavery, manages to break away from the damaging world of the Old South to emerge i
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…reexamine the SF you read as a teen, you might easily forgot how you've also been enculturated with some outdated ideals. Read "Gone With the Wind" and you get a very different account than reading "The Wind Done Gone".
on “Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up” ↗>it would be same as if you read a French book and wrote it in your own words. Which would be copyright infringement. See e.g. The Wind Done Gone.
…to rewrite complete stories? The simplest example would be the same paragraphs with sentences with different structures. The most complex would be something like Gone with the Wind leading with The Wind Done Gone. (A book rewritten from another characters perspective even though that character was never mentioned in the former). I'm really fascinated by this idea for some reason.
on “I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it” ↗The counter-example that has stuck with me is the novel "The Wind Done Gone": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Done_Gone. It's Gone with the Wind, re-imagined from a slave's point of view - and a direct criticism of the work, published for profit and without permission.…
on “What's Wrong With the Latest Beastie Boys Lawsuit” ↗…copyright infringement," This is (as I understand it) more of a UK thing. The US has a different view. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction As a specific US example, see "The Wind Done Gone", "a bestselling historical novel that tells an alternative account of the story in the American novel Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. While the story of Gone with the Wind focuses on…
on “The Last Ringbearer” ↗…copyrighted, so applying the facts you learned is free, but creative works are generally copyrighted. If you write your own book inspired by a book you read, that can be copyright infringement (see The Wind Done Gone). If you use even a tiny fragment of someone else's work in your own, even if not consciously, that can be copyright infringement (see My Sweet Lord).
on “FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI” ↗