SGA Fic Recs
Today's theme: Apocalypse!
The worst has happened...
Tempus Fugit by Canadian Snoopy - This story absolutely killed me. Snoopy used the perfect writing style for this concept, and the device of backwards time was brilliant. Just bloody brilliant. So very, very in character, especially Rodney's line for Sam Carter. The last line will turn you inside out, make you forget to breathe, and send you to the beginning to read it all again.
Legion the Things I Would Give to Oblivion by Auburn - Auburn is an amazingly versitile writer. She wrote what I still consider to the the funniest SGA story I've ever read, and she wrote this one. The stylistic choice she made for telling the story had me reading on the edge of my seat, because you both know what's happened and what's coming, but the journey is still the most important part. You have to know the how and the why and your heart is breaking as the answers become clear to you. (As a side note, I want to add that Auburn's use of forward time for one storyline and backward time for the other, having them meet in the middle was ingenious.)
The Other Side of Silence by Lemonbella - Some, I suppose, would only loosely call this one an apocalypse story. However when it comes right down to it, what occurs in the story - not to be spoiled for those who may not know - is perhaps the worst thing that could have happened to McKay short of death or brain injury. enchanteresse and I were talking about it one night and it's just so... wrong. So very, painfully wrong. And yet Lemonbella did it so very, very right. A very good story.
A Pocketful of Ashes by Danvers - Or, "Five Ways John Sheppard Dies". The last line is beautiful.
Back from the Well by Xanthe - Atlantis is taken by a raiding party, the inhabitants either killed or sold into slavery. Very nicely written, not stepping back or glossing over the bad. Each character reacts in their own way and stays true to themselves. Xanthe did a very nice job with this.
Two Weeks by Mmmchelle and TheGrrrl - An older story, but one that I found nicely done. The Wraith are coming, and John and Rodney decide to spend the two weeks before they arrive together.
The worst has happened...
Tempus Fugit by Canadian Snoopy - This story absolutely killed me. Snoopy used the perfect writing style for this concept, and the device of backwards time was brilliant. Just bloody brilliant. So very, very in character, especially Rodney's line for Sam Carter. The last line will turn you inside out, make you forget to breathe, and send you to the beginning to read it all again.
Legion the Things I Would Give to Oblivion by Auburn - Auburn is an amazingly versitile writer. She wrote what I still consider to the the funniest SGA story I've ever read, and she wrote this one. The stylistic choice she made for telling the story had me reading on the edge of my seat, because you both know what's happened and what's coming, but the journey is still the most important part. You have to know the how and the why and your heart is breaking as the answers become clear to you. (As a side note, I want to add that Auburn's use of forward time for one storyline and backward time for the other, having them meet in the middle was ingenious.)
The Other Side of Silence by Lemonbella - Some, I suppose, would only loosely call this one an apocalypse story. However when it comes right down to it, what occurs in the story - not to be spoiled for those who may not know - is perhaps the worst thing that could have happened to McKay short of death or brain injury. enchanteresse and I were talking about it one night and it's just so... wrong. So very, painfully wrong. And yet Lemonbella did it so very, very right. A very good story.
A Pocketful of Ashes by Danvers - Or, "Five Ways John Sheppard Dies". The last line is beautiful.
Back from the Well by Xanthe - Atlantis is taken by a raiding party, the inhabitants either killed or sold into slavery. Very nicely written, not stepping back or glossing over the bad. Each character reacts in their own way and stays true to themselves. Xanthe did a very nice job with this.
Two Weeks by Mmmchelle and TheGrrrl - An older story, but one that I found nicely done. The Wraith are coming, and John and Rodney decide to spend the two weeks before they arrive together.