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| This piece of fiction makes up for every other piece unwritten. Loch Ness's Scent of Blood, After the Gods have gone and Sense Without Soul are lengthy, involving, intelligent novels which manage to tie up all the missing ends that the series neglected. Violent, moody, experimental, satisfying, this is a masterwork. The first time I read it I was still at the PC, in tears, at four o'clock in the morning. | |
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Jane
Mailander's
Waning
Grey captures the lighter atmosphere of the films with consumate
skill (I'll read anything she writes, in any fandom.) and creates something
which is both real, beautiful, and very, very slightly camp in the way
film Batman should be. Jane
St Clair takes a different view with the Authority fictions
Knight After Night and Pulling Your Bat Out Of The Fire, which
capture Batman's otherness and distance with style. Gen? I recommend you
head over to AJ's The Family
Archives right now, by far the biggest and most beautiful het Batclan
archive on the web. |
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| I can't imagine (oh, famous last words!) slashing Georgette Heyer. Leonie and Avon belong together so completely, and who could split up Miles O'Hara and the enchanting Mollie for Jack Carstairs, even if Diana does hang around waiting to be rescued? But Jat Sapphire, Sebastian and Dr Ruthless have produced amazing pieces of fiction. Jat's Wages of Vice slashes, with complete authenticity and great skill, Avon and Hugh Davenant: if you read Heyer at all, this is essential reading. Sebastian and Dr Ruthless cross Heyer and Highlander with Cory Raines, Avon and Dominic in Winner Takes All: I personally don't like the idea of Dominic cheating on Mary, but that's my own preference, and this too is a great piece of writing. | |
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Archives: I'll read anything by Aristide and Mairead Triste, angst-ridden, occasionally violent fiction with an edge of black humour. MacGeorge is prolific and spectacular, writing fiction which should be canon. Killa's style (and the two most outstanding WIP's in Highlander): Amand-r's mixture of horror and adventure, esjay's evocative, lengthy plot-driven epics: Becca Abbot, whose Forsaken is one my favourite feel-good fictions. All of these are splendid writers. Oh, I could go on for ever here: zen&nancy, Cinel Dunant, Devo, Taselby, Chris Powers, (Phoenix Fire and Fool's Gold, plot with style: what a writer this woman is) Taz, Carenejeans.. All I can say is that these are the stories that I really love. Lanning
Cook's
Sacred Trust. This is such an amazing piece of writing. It's one
of those stories that must have been planned and patterned, a fomat of
opposites and oppositions circling and resolving in elegant and exact
prose. I love the way Lanning Cook sets image against image, ideal against
reality, character against character: creates a completely believeable
villain and allows him to point up both evil and redemption. (not to mention
setting up Joe's disability and his acceptence of it against..well, you'll
just have to read it.) There are so many good moments: Amanda throwing
tins at the barge, Joanna and Richie tormenting the watchers with anonymous
telephone calls, Duncan..not..throbbing...Set aside a day and read
it slowly, with chocolate. How can I not mention
Kat Allison
again? Frankly, everything she's ever written on Highlander. Once. I find
her gut-wrenchingly honest, come away thinking, yes, this is how it was,
how can it not be like this? and then I can't bear to re-read... Taselby
writes hard hitting, edgy fiction: her Sedimental Journey is my personal
favourite Duncan/Methos love story. The Book of Lost Days is possibly
her best known piece of Highlander fiction, but I've never managed to
read it more than once, it's that kind of good. Sylvia Volk, who writes Methos and Duncan with humour, authority, and a singular, intelligent and informed vision. Every story she writes is a masterpiece (although I still can't work out the blasted Watcher CD. I'm hoping it's a work in progress, but the odds are I'm just not clever enough). I could be completely wrong here, but I see, not my own blatent borrowing, but just the echoes of Francis Crawford laughing behind Methos' back. If you read Dunnett, you'll love Sylvia Volk: she has the same involved, emotionally intense, concentrate or you'll miss it style. And finally. Unovis.
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| Telanu's No Windows still haunts me. Frodo/Gandalf. It's not pretty. | |
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| Angelfish Archivist's Chances. It's just gorgeous. | |
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toft_froggy's String Theory. A McKay/Sheppard AU, where John is the son of a famous violinist and McKay a conductor. What really made this story was the discussion and writing of a passion for music: for the musically illiterate here, it was an amazing depiction of the emotion and structure of classical music. An astonishing piece of writing, fantastic. synecdochic's freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. This is...well. 23 pages of comments, and deserved. Set well after the series ends. Again, a story with ideas - in this case, physics, and teaching. These is a gut wrenching piece of writing that hits the mind as well as the heart, hard. |
