Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand is a controversial Russian-born American novelist and screenwriter.
Her works include Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged.
Out of The Fountainhead she eventually developed an ideological system called Objectivism, to which she dedicated several non-fiction books and which is central to the plot of Atlas Shrugged. The Objectivist movement started out as a group of fans of The Fountainhead.
==Ayn Rand and Canon==
Steve Ditko was a fan of her works and ideology, and this was reflected in his solo comics as well as his work on Spider-Man.Spidey Shrugged: How Marvel Apologized for Spider-Man's Ayn Rand PastDitko & Rand: The Objectivist Spider-Man? Another literary fan is Terry Goodkind, whose increasing focus on Randian themes in later novels led to fan backlash.Wow, I really found this quote by Terry Goodkind off putting on Reddit
BioShock is a series of first-person shooter video games set in dystopian societies. The first two games, BioShock (2007) and BioShock 2 (2010), take place in the underwater city of Rapture, where society is based on the Objectivist principles of Ayn Rand.
==Ayn Rand and Fandom==
As an influential philosopher and public figure of the 20th century, Ayn Rand has left her impact on fandom as well. There's a few dozen fanworks for her books on AO3 and FFN, but a number of works for other fandoms may be influence by her ideas or considered in conversation with Objectivism.
===Star Trek===
Sondra Marshak, an early and influential Star Trek: TOS fan, was an avowed Objectivist and a devotee of Ayn Rand from the age of thirteen. Marshak believed that "Star Trek" advanced Objectivist ideals. She explained these ideals at several points in Star Trek Lives!. 
Two years after that book was published, James Wolcott of "The Village Voice" wrote an essay called Big Brother is Trekking You in which he was disparaging about many things, including Star Trek: TOS itself, as well as female sexuality: 
Marshak's admiration of Rand influenced her and co-writer's 1982 Star Trek pro novel, The Prometheus Design. One fan wrote about "The Prometheus Design" and said: "There are some superb descriptive passages in the book, but for the most part they are eclipsed by a style that has all the humorless drive of an Ayn Rand with none of its power." by Judith Gran in Organia 
In 2014, a fan commented that Gene Roddenberry did not share this vision with Marshak and her co-writers: 
==Example Fanworks==
* , a Tumblr blog by ms-demeanor for discussing Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged (including a live-blog/read through currently in progress)
* the Inception Alpha/Beta/Omega AU by the ragnarok was described by the author in 2011: "...at some point all the economic/political articles I've been reading over the summer have filtered in, and I've been reading a lot; as well as some experiences from attending protests. ... So this is a mish-mash of Id-based indulgence and political wankery. Basically not unlike a cheesy romance novel written by a cheap socialist Ayn Rand knock off. With porn."the-ragnarok on the story announcement post dated October 26, 2011..
==Archives & Resources==
Official links:
* Ayn Rand on the IMDb
* Wikipedia: Ayn Rand
* Ayn Rand entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
* The Ayn Rand Insitute website
Fannish Links:
* AO3: Ayn Rand (character tag), Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (fandom tag), The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand (fandom tag), Anthem - Ayn Rand (fandom tag), We The Living - Ayn Rand (fandom tag), Other Ayn Rand Tags
* Tumblr: #Ayn Rand
* Fandom.com wikis: Ayn Rand at The Atlas Shrugged Wiki, The Libertarianism Wiki, The Literature Wiki
* Ayn Rand Rewrites 
==References==
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