Comments | sga_flashfic: The Three Laws of Arthur C. Clarke (and corollaries thereof) by Sophonisba (Amnesty 2006)

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The Three Laws of Arthur C. Clarke (and corollaries thereof) by Sophonisba (Amnesty 2006)

Dec 22, 2006 09:00

-title- The Three Laws of Arthur C. Clarke (and corollaries thereof)
-author- Sophonisba, saphanibaal
-challenges- "This is not happening," First Contact
-warnings- General audiences. Mild scatological references. Third-person omniscient. Attempt to visually distinguish homographic heterophones. Takes place early in first season.
-characters- Ensemble; AR-1- ( Read more... )

challenge: not happening, amnesty 2006, challenge: first contact, author: saphanibaal

Comments 33

ratcreature December 23 2006, 01:00:19 UTC

ROTFLOL

My favorite bit was:
"Oh, and if anyone wants to trade some food on a smaller scale right now," Sheppard adds, "we have two hundred and forty attractive and size-adjustable hats."

saphanibaal December 23 2006, 06:53:11 UTC

^_^

Hey, a baseball cap is an amazingly useful sort of hat, they seem to be otherwise normal baseball caps, and it's not as if they cost the Atlanteans anything.

kibou_sueshijuu December 23 2006, 01:57:42 UTC

ahahahaha, oh god, i love it. ^.^ very fun and creative and haha I giggled often and throughout. :)

I'm also very impressed with your Rodney-monologues. How on Earth you were able to come up with the stuff that came out of his mouth... what are you, a mathematician? physicist?

awesome story, im tickled. ^.^

saphanibaal December 23 2006, 13:29:00 UTC

Thank you very much for your kind words. I'm glad to know that you thought I wrote Rodney-on-a-roll convincingly.

Seriously, I expect either a mathematician or physicist would be able to see just how overly-facile and transparent my attempts at technobabble actually are ^_^

Thank you again!

burntcopper December 23 2006, 02:33:21 UTC

I want that fedora.

:pouts the pout of one who can never get hats big enough for her head:

saphanibaal December 23 2006, 13:35:52 UTC

You do not want to know how much time I spent brainstorming and discarding ideas for what in the world the five hundredth hat ought to be. ^_^ I finally went with classic elegance.

And I know what you mean -- I'm doliocephalic enough that most women's hats sit on top of my head rather than properly fitting, and I *love* hats. ;_;

amarin_rose December 23 2006, 04:19:42 UTC

There are few things in life that Seuss can't make better. :)

saphanibaal December 23 2006, 15:10:46 UTC

Yes. Precisely.

(Although after two years in Pegasus, Rodney probably abhors If I Ran The Circus, and Ford seems to have drawn the wrong lesson from I Had Trouble In Getting To Solla Sollew.)

hotels_inthesea December 23 2006, 05:45:25 UTC

HAH. Brilliant. I was initially put off by the confusingness of the lj-cut text, but i stuck with it and was greatly rewarded! With hats.

saphanibaal December 23 2006, 15:12:23 UTC

Thank you!

The lj-cut text is confusing? How should I make it less so?

Hats are good. ^_^

hotels_inthesea December 24 2006, 12:05:10 UTC

no no, i mean it was good text, but rather convoluted. but in a good way! in a douglas adams-y way.

saphanibaal January 1 2007, 23:04:51 UTC

I think I first saw it in that form in Rick Adams' The Wizardry Consulted, but I'm not sure where *he* got it from.