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Eureka: Despite the not-at-all-occasional cheesiness, this has been a very good show in a variety of ways. I was especially impressed with the emotional accuracy of Jo-four-years-from-now, even if she was a simulation: She was right. She fell in love; she didn’t do anything wrong.
A Softer World: this could work for so many of my fandoms!
Rec: Pairing Pendragon/Merlin: Meta, really, in which BBC Merlin characters are Starz Camelot fans. I have rarely felt more directly hailed by a text! (As Sady Doyle once said, this must be what guys feel like all the time.) The embarrassing stuff is there, along with the love.
Interesting article on Foreign Policy’s gender issue (pun, sadly, intended).
David Gerrold, The Middle of Nowhere: Another entry in Gerrold’s rewrite of Star Trek, with more office politics and sex. Probably my favorite of the ones I’ve read, with the Star Wolf out of order due to invading imps (not actually funny) but still trying to save Stardock, the key human base, from the alien armada threatening it.
Joe Hill & Stephen King, Throttle: (1) It’s Duel fic (the authors say as much; it’s good to be influential in publishing, I guess): A group of motorcycle riders who’ve just come out of a failed and deadly criminal venture encounter a truck driver with murder on his mind. (2) The circumstances under which this father-son team decided to write a story about a father’s terrible disappointment with his coward and murderer of a son are probably more intriguing than the story itself, which is slight.
Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald, The Price of the Stars: In order to find the murderers of her estranged mother, Beka Rosselin-Metadi accepts her father’s warship and goes undercover as a (male) hired gun (and then briefly as a princess), in the company of a survivor of the Magewars. Spaceship battles, gun battles, and psychic battles follow, along with some family drama and a bit of romance on the side. Why don’t more revenge-seeking women go undercover as male hired guns, I wonder? I would have liked more attention to the genderplay, given that the people around her apparently didn’t expect a woman to go about dressed like a man, but if you like space opera generally you might like this.
A Softer World: this could work for so many of my fandoms!
Rec: Pairing Pendragon/Merlin: Meta, really, in which BBC Merlin characters are Starz Camelot fans. I have rarely felt more directly hailed by a text! (As Sady Doyle once said, this must be what guys feel like all the time.) The embarrassing stuff is there, along with the love.
Interesting article on Foreign Policy’s gender issue (pun, sadly, intended).
David Gerrold, The Middle of Nowhere: Another entry in Gerrold’s rewrite of Star Trek, with more office politics and sex. Probably my favorite of the ones I’ve read, with the Star Wolf out of order due to invading imps (not actually funny) but still trying to save Stardock, the key human base, from the alien armada threatening it.
Joe Hill & Stephen King, Throttle: (1) It’s Duel fic (the authors say as much; it’s good to be influential in publishing, I guess): A group of motorcycle riders who’ve just come out of a failed and deadly criminal venture encounter a truck driver with murder on his mind. (2) The circumstances under which this father-son team decided to write a story about a father’s terrible disappointment with his coward and murderer of a son are probably more intriguing than the story itself, which is slight.
Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald, The Price of the Stars: In order to find the murderers of her estranged mother, Beka Rosselin-Metadi accepts her father’s warship and goes undercover as a (male) hired gun (and then briefly as a princess), in the company of a survivor of the Magewars. Spaceship battles, gun battles, and psychic battles follow, along with some family drama and a bit of romance on the side. Why don’t more revenge-seeking women go undercover as male hired guns, I wonder? I would have liked more attention to the genderplay, given that the people around her apparently didn’t expect a woman to go about dressed like a man, but if you like space opera generally you might like this.
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