TEAM AWAY: Pound of flesh, "Little By Little To the Truth; or a Narrative of the Atlantis Expedition

[fluffyllama]

Title: Little By Little To the Truth; or a Narrative of the Atlantis Expedition
Author: telesilla
Team: Away
Prompt: Pound of flesh
Pairing(s): McKay/Sheppard
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Summary: It's 1904 and Lady Elizabeth Weir, Dowager Countess Menlow and Head of the Atlantis Expedition, is the widow of an English noble; Colonel John Patrick Sheppard, US

Comments

[roaringmice]

Now this was unexpected. I'm normally quite wary of "historical fanfiction" or whatever that sort of thing is, because so often it's way more "schmoopy" and foolish than I can be bothered with, but I read this because it's part of this community, and this story surprised the hell out of me. I think I'm in love!

It was well written, well paced, well plotted. Despite the combo of the "real" from 1904 with the "not so real" from Pegasus, it all felt genuine.

I liked the accuracy of detail - how John was commanding the British marines, rather than American forces - historically accurate, that the Americans would not be there at this point in time, except perhaps as individuals. The interesting combo of 1904 tech with that of the Ancients, which actually ended up feeling very real. And the actual change in the characters - how they thought, the words they used, how they behaved - to make them fit in this time period, and yet you did not lose the core of these characters.

And I really liked your Elizabeth. Dowager Countess Melow, indeed.

Thanks for writing this. Goes on my list of faves, I'm thinking.

[telesilla]

Wow, thank you for taking a chance on this. My main goal was to write a fairly typical John/Rodney fic as if Steampunk!SGA were the show we'd been watching from the beginning. And so I wanted to avoid as many historical romance cliches as I could. :)

I'm really glad the level of detail worked. It was kind of tricky because I wanted to make the era clear but still not go overboard; with it being written from John's POV, the only details I could mention were things he'd thing about.

Thanks for the great feedback!