Fan fiction developed within a decade of the show's debut in 1966; it did not take decades.
Popular literary genres such as the Western and hardboiled crime fiction developed in the United States.
Beginning in 1981, Gibson's stories appeared in Omni and Universe 11, wherein his fiction developed a bleak, film noir feel.
Ligotti's strange, funny, pessimistic fictions developed a cult reputation when the writer of the HBO series True Detective confessed that many of Matthew McConaughey's diatribes about the pointlessness of human consciousness were influenced by Ligotti's book of pessimistic philosophy, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.
Even those who recognise the fiction have developed an unhealthy obsession with their heroine.
Today's science-fiction authors expect "that the fictions we're writing now will never come about," said Ian McDonald, whose novels "River of Gods" and "Brasyl" export familiar tropes of Western science fiction to developing nations like India.
Fiction has developed in unexpected ways since Elizabeth Bowen commanded, in her "Notes on Writing a Novel," that the "functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the novelist's mind.
Among these idiosyncratic gems was Little Big Adventure, a colourful science fiction epic developed by Adeline Software, and overseen by Frédérick Raynal, the co-creator of the Alone in the Dark series.
X+Y is a likable fiction feature developed by director Morgan Matthews from his own award-winning 2007 documentary, Beautiful Young Minds, about young British mathematicians who are on the autism spectrum competing at the International Mathematical Olympiad: a "mathlete" event for superpowered maths brains.
It's a science fiction shooter developed for tablets and smartphones, with a story by author John Scalzi and art by Mike Choi.
