Has anyone else read the QL/BTTF crossover fan fiction available at www.bttf.com by Mary Jean Holmes? Here are some comments that I copied and pasted from that website:

Welcome to My Future

About My Back to the Future Fan Fiction

First Things First:

All of the stories are either PG or PG-13; there is no sex or excessive violence in any of them, but I let the characters use the slang and other potentially offensive language they used in the films, when appropriate. It gets no worse than that, and never will, as I consider anything more not in keeping with the characters as we know them.

My Approach to the Genre:

When I first was inspired to write fiction based on Back to the Future, I knew of no other fan writers interested in the genre. Even if there had been dozens of others (as was the case when I wrote Star Wars fanfic), it would not have influenced what I wrote. When inspiration strikes me, it does so in a way that conceives not one story, but an entire vision of where this concept may have come from, and where it might be going. Thus, you will find (with one
exception) that all of my stories are somehow interconnected. They were constructed upon a vision of the bigger picture that could be Back to the Future in its past, present, and future to which I gave considerable thought before I wrote the first word of the first story. Since this process began in 1989 with the release of BTTF II and was largely completed in 1990 shortly after the release of BTTF III, it was never influenced by the cartoon series, the Ride, nor any of the other works assembled or written by other fans since that time. I generally follow the George Lucas School of What's Real and What Ain't: what you see in the movies is gospel (fact); everything else is apocryphal (hearsay).

But yes, you will occasionally find traces of apocrypha in some of the stories -- I didn't write them all at once, after all, and I've made minor adjustments as I felt were suitable when other things came along -- but I made a conscious decision not to go back and rethink what I had already thought in order to conform with other peoples' ideas, opinions, and extrapolations. That's one of the beauties of fan fiction. You can have many people look at the same thing and come away with different impressions, which they turn into stories. Done well, it can be fascinating and exciting -- all the more so in this genre, which began by looking at how peoples' lives could change, if only a few seemingly insignificant things were different. Time travel is the ultimate vehicle of many "what if?" flights of fancy; these tales are my "what if" ideas in the universe of Back to the Future. I politely ask that you accept them as such -- and if you have differing ideas, please don't argue with me and tell me I'm wrong; convince me by writing the stories!
Each unique point of view is precious, and can shed its own light on the greater thematic material that lies at the heart of BTTF, a story not about time travel itself, but about people who happen to travel through time.

My Credentials:

I have been telling stories for most of my life, and actually writing for something on the order of 35 years. During that time, I have had the tremendous good fortune to have had three of my four favorite authors as mentors in my craft; from each, I have learned important and valuable lessons about the art of storytelling. I turned to writing fan fiction as a creative outlet late in the 1970s, and have to date 48 complete and published stories under my belt in five different genres: 21 novels, 16 novellas, 8 novelettes, and 3 short stories. Another 14 pieces are currently in various stages of development (this does not count my original SF, which I'm in the process of rewriting with an eye toward eventually turning pro).

About the author

Chronology as of December 1, 1999
[Order in which they should be read (order in which they were written)]

"Twice in a Lifetime" (5)
OUTATIME (4) (crossover with Quantum Leap)
"A Stitch in Time" (6)
The Times They Are a-Changing (1) (crossover with The Real Ghostbusters)
'Til Death Do Us Part (8)
Past Imperfect (2)
"At Very First Sight" (3)
"I'll Be Home for Christmas" (7)
Running Out of Time (9)
No Time Like the Present (10) (sequel to OUTATIME)

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OUTATIME
a Back to the Future/Quantum Leap crossover novel
by J. Robert Holmes, Mary Jean Holmes, and Mary P. Wood
first published May 1991 by Alvyren Press, Mary Jean Holmes editor
revised 1999 by Mary Jean Holmes
67,093 words

Synopsis

Sam Beckett had lived through many unusual lives ever since he'd first stepped into the Quantum Leap project accelerator, but for all the strange and peculiar things he'd experienced, there was one firmly unchangeable constant on which he could rely: It was
absolutely, positively, unequivocally impossible for him to ever Leap outside his own lifetime. Of this, he was completely sure.

Until he Leaped into Dr. Emmett L. Brown... and his heavily modified, time-traveling DeLorean.

Now, stranded in his own future -- specifically the year 2015 -- Sam doesn't know why he is where he is or how to get back where he belongs. Al and Ziggy don't know how to find him or how to get in contact with him. Doc Brown is annoyed at having his first trip through time so rudely interrupted. And Sam is in trouble. Big trouble....

Author's Preface

The concept of OUTATIME came about as the result of a conversation the three of us had after watching an episode of Quantum Leap sometime in 1990. The question of how to have Sam Leap outside his own lifetime came up, and I (MJ) suggested that the best and most amusing way to do it would be by having him Leap into another time traveler just before s/he was about to depart for times unknown. Having that time traveler be Doc Brown seemed like a natural (especially given that both BTTF and QL were products of Universal), and thus, OUTATIME was born. As a collaboration, it was concocted by having all three of us discuss the basic premise. Mary Wood wrote part one; JR did the first draft for much of parts two through sixteen, and I did the remainder, as well as all the editing and rewrites. The less savory things that happen to Sam/Doc about midway through the story, however, were entirely JR's idea, although they did fit very nicely into the concept as a whole. Was it for the sake of mere vanity, after all, that Doc decided to have an overhaul?

Insofar as the QL portion is concerned, this story is based on the premise that time travel via Quantum Leap is a psychic experience, that Sam's psyche and not his material body is what actually Leaps (as was strongly implied -- if not downright stated -- by early episodes such as "What Price Gloria?"). We began writing this story in the summer of 1990, before episodes directly contradicting this premise were aired (and before we'd really seen anything about the project itself and the people in it, other than Al). Thus, regardless of whether or not physical Leaping ultimately became the Way of Things According to Bellisario, we politely ask that you accept the original premise for the duration of this story (it still makes the most sense to us. After all, even if everyone else sees Sam as the Leapee, he couldn't possibly fit all their clothes).

A minor note: I did not choose the date for Doc's birthday; J.R. did, and has been roundly scolded for it by me, since the date he picked (if not the year) happens to be my birthday. I let it stand simply because it seemed vaguely appropriate, as July 20th is Space Exploration Day, the date on which Man first walked on the Moon, and also the date when one of the Mars probes (I forget which) landed on Mars. In a strange and backhanded way, I guess it's also appropriate to have one of our birthdates dragged into the genre, since we just happen to have been married on November 12, 1977.

[Note from me: I read this one when she originally wrote it. It wasn't bad. It was interesting to see Sam react to BTTF's 2015. In the story, Sam doesn't encounter the future Marty but he does encounter Griff Tannen. Just to be clear, Sam leaps into Doc Brown towards the end of BTTF Part I as Doc is about to time travel to 2015.]

No Time Like the Present
the sequel to OUTATIME
by Mary Jean Holmes
written 1993/1999
132,220 words

Synopsis

After seven years of following Sam Beckett on a never-ending journey through time and space with no apparent hope of ever bringing him back home, Al Calavicci remembered that years ago, during a very strange Leap to the future, one person had said it was possible to repair what was wrong with the retrieval systems of Quantum Leap: Dr. Emmett L. Brown. But when Al headed off to California, determined to find Brown and ask for his help, he didn't know that the mysterious Power apparently in control of Quantum Leap had already beaten him to the punch, sending Sam back into the life of his inventor-colleague, and sending Doc back to Sam's life at the Project in New Mexico -- not at some point in the past or even the future, but at the very same moment in the present. And though it seems like a perfect solution, the situation is not without its problems, which carry the danger of permanently shutting down Quantum Leap before its creator can be retrieved, destroying the lives of both Sam and Doc, and perhaps ending those lives forever....

Author's Preface

When I began this story in June of 1993, I never imagined it would be the last story I would finish for more than five years. I doubt that it had anything to do with the specific project, but that year, writer's block set in hard and fast and refused to budge for a long,
long time, longer than I'd ever experienced before. Even though every writer has blocks now and again, this one went on for so long, I feared I was never going to be able to write anything longer than a letter, ever again. Fortunately, that did not happen, and after more than five years of waiting (drum roll, please), the oft-mentioned but never before seen sequel to OUTATIME is finally finished. (Sound of champagne bottles popping, even though I can't stand champagne. Make that Dr Pepper instead.) The reason this is such a milestone for me is simple: Finishing this story was my version of getting back up on the horse after being thrown.
It's the first thing of any length which I'd started writing before the block that I've now been able to finish. It gives me hope that other half-done projects that have been languishing will also be finished someday, along with new ones. Now, a few words of warning:

If you adored the last season or so of Quantum Leap, please DON'T read this story. I watched QL right from the beginning and loved it -- until the pregnancy episode. That was the point at which the writers started flip-flopping about whether or not it was Sam's psyche or body that Leaped, and the rules in general about Leaping changed seemingly at whim, every other week, sometimes ruining episodes that might've been so much better if they'd just stuck to one concept. I kept watching since I continued to enjoy the performances of the two principles (who certainly did their best with sometimes weak material), but a lot of the pleasure went out of it for me when I saw an interview with Donald Bellisario (the show's creator/producer) in which he flat-out said that it didn't matter if they weren't consistent about how Quantum Leap worked, anymore, because the fans would find ways to explain it. Perhaps so, but I didn't believe that was the fans' job. After that, when he lost interest in QL because he was excited about other projects, I'd hoped he would turn it over to someone who still cared about such things, but he never did. The last episode left me (and the roomful of people with whom I'd been watching it) asking, "That's it? That's how it ends? There's got to be a better way to end it than that!"

Hence, No Time Like the Present. As soon as I realized that we'd already set up a better way to end it when we wrote OUTATIME, I knew I had to write it. It took more time getting here than I'd anticipated, but I hope the wait was worth it.

Two small items: I invented neither Thelma Beckett's peach cobbler nor Doc's Uncle Oliver from Milwaukee. Much as I disliked a lot of things about the BTTF cartoon, I was astonished that someone knew enough about my hometown to know that ethnically speaking, it's very German, especially so during the time the generation prior to Doc's would've been around. It so amused and amazed me that the writer of the episode (the plot of which I otherwise found quite absurd) managed to get that detail right, I decided to incorporate it into my stories.

Another small item: I seem to have developed something of a fondness for using bits and pieces of short poems in these tales, not merely as chapter headings. The one that appears in Chapter 22 is the second to last line from a very short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Requiem." If you want to hear the entire poem, either look it up on one of the Internet poetry databases, or ask me.
It's not long.

One other thing: Although in the normal computation of such things, century years divisible by four without a remainder are NOT Leap years, century years both divisible by four and by one hundred are (after being confused about this, having heard contrary information from normally reliable scientific-type people, a friend was kind enough to direct me to the website for the Bureau of Standards and Practices, which clarified the matter). So, hopefully, all my dates and days are correct for the calendar as it will be in 2001, following the Leap Year 2000. If I slipped anywhere, my apologies.

Again, I thank you all for waiting. Coming up next (Lord only knows when...), Until the End of Time. I hope. Get ready for something completely different....

[Note from me: I was disappointed by this story. If anyone feels that QL's final episode needs to be "fixed", just wait for the movie or TV-movie. After all, it seems like every TV show eventually comes back as either a movie or TV-movie. So, QL is bound to come back some day. I think a better idea would have been to have Sam leap into Doc at the end of BTTF Part II right before Doc gets zapped to 1885. Yes, once again, Sam would be leaping out of his own lifetime.]

I haven't read that. If you guys want to put your comments on it in thisconversation, go ahead, just no flames beacuse those are not allowed. Any comments going up here that aren't flames will be forwarded to the author.:)

As a fan of both Quantum Leap and Back To The Future please, please please make it easy for anyone to read these stories by publishing as books. Thank You

Anonymous, you can write the author at:

maryjean@bttf.com

Originally, I bought the first BTTF/QL story from her (not really as a book -more like a fanzine). So, you can email her and see if she would be willing to still do that. However, they are available, for FREE, to download at:

http://www.bttf.com

The Onion: Now More Than Ever, Humanity Needs My Back to the Future Fan Fiction

http://www.theonion.com/onion3738/now_more_than_ever.html

Not only is this a FUNNY article, it raises an interesting question. People really do write fan fiction on the Internet for various TV shows & movies (mostly sci-fi). Has anyone out there somewhere on the worldwide web had the BAD TASTE to write a time travel story about Sept. 11th? Are there any badly written stories out there where the characters from say, Quantum Leap, Seven Days, Early Edition, or Back to the Future try to prevent the events of Sept. 11th?