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I've seen other people doing year-end reviews, and I'd like to do the same. I have a couple of problems: I don't keep good track of what I've read, and I know I'll forget people. And I'm going to take advantage of this being my first year on LJ and cover more than just 2007, since I couldn't do this round-up last year! I'll cover both SG-1 and SGA (thus doubtless doubling the number of mistaken exclusions).
f you don't want to be linked, please tell me, and I'll edit you out. If I've forgotten you, I'm sorry! Please don't take any omissions as negatives, except about my own recollections.
For those who don't know my tastes (yet), I'm a big fan of gen and especially friendship fiction.
Stargate SG-1
Redbyrd's stories are among the best I've read, and Redbyrd has given me tremendous aid and comfort as a beta-reader for my own stories. Her most recent story is her "Stop the Presses" remix of Cofax's "Freedom of the Press." Also this year, she posted the wonderful "Time Out of Mind", which appeared in a zine the previous year. (Full disclosure: I was a beta-reader for this story. ) My favorites from years past include the Endeavor series, with fully-imagined original characters, and "Rearranging Fate". Please join me in urging Redbyrd to write more fic as soon as she finds time!
Another of my favorites is Random; I've linked to her stories at All Daniel Fic, but there's also "Through the Gate Darkly", which isn't there because it's a Jack story. Probably my favorite story by Random is "No Signs". All her stories are well worth reading; take your time and savor them!
From this point, I'm not keeping much to 2007; some sites don't show the date in a clear, easy list, while other authors have been more prolific in past years. I'm torn between hoping I'm not just recommending authors and stories everyone already knows, because I don't want to waste your time, and hoping you know them, because I enjoy them so much that I hope you've already found them!
Aurora Novarum also writes great SG-1 fic (and acted as a beta for a recent SGA story I wrote). "Just a Scientist" is still among my favorites (Bill Lee! Huzzah!), as is "Many Roads". Aurora writes both the major characters and minor characters with depth and great interest.
I've read all of Travelling One's stories, and I'm always excited to find a new one. My favorites are still "Dying for Gold" and "BS, N (Both Sides, Now)"; I also love her tag for "The Shroud," "See You Alive". Her stories tend to be Daniel-centric (which is a good thing!)
Sometimes I'm really in the mood for hurt/comfort, and JoaG is one of the best. I really enjoy "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble" and "Adrift". She focuses especially on Jack and Daniel, but many of the stories have a strong team element too.
I don't read much slash, but if I do, it's usually by JoaG or Devra, including "Goodbye to Dreams", cowritten by Babs and Devra. I've posted the link to the original, not the extended version, because I haven't read the extended version yet. I went through a few too many tissues on the original to be ready for the other. Kleenex warning on the original, but do read through to the end. Really.
Another writer I love is ELG (I'm reading her Charndras original series too!). I read mostly her gen fic. Two of her best, I think, are "Salt of the Earth and "The Wine of Dionysus". The latter contains a warning about possible character rape. I usually avoid such stories, but after I'd read her others, I read "Wine," and I do recommend it. She writes Sam exceptionally well, though Daniel is most often the focal character in her stories; friendship and team are also important elements.
I know I'm forgetting people, and particularly stories by those who don't have their own sites for me to bookmark.
Stargate: Atlantis
I'm a relative newcomer to SGA fic, but I've found some great writers.
Friendshipper/Layla Lawlor/Sholio creates not only regular fanfic but a few multimedia stories. In regular fanfic, her "Light of a Fading Sun" is brilliant. I started it two or three times before I read the whole; the beginning is, to speak like a total philistine, depressing. Stick with it. I love "Shattered Things", which I had to read a second time right after the first because I'd missed an important detail or two--and it repaid reading twice in a row! She wrote a wonderful fragment, "Safe Harbor", recently enough that I still have hope that she can be persuaded to write a longer story from it. But what first attracted me is her multimedia "Postcards to Jeannie". It's wonderful. Friendshipper writes great friendship fic, including John and Rodney, and she's one of the best writers for Teyla I've read. I haven't read all her stories yet, because many are long, and I like to spread out the good ones. My favorite may change without notice, but "Postcards to Jeannie" still has that place right now. Not surprisingly, friendship stories are her forte.
Another writer I love but whose stories I have not all read is Tipper. She also writes Teyla very well (which is good, because I think the actual scriptwriters often don't!). "Never Stop Moving" was the story that made me seek out Tipper's site (and caused me to realize I'd already read some of her stories and wonder how the frell I had not made it to her site before). I also love "Aftermath", a much-needed epilogue to "The Defiant One" (I didn't realize how badly it was needed until I read this story!). Tipper writes great friendship and team stories.
I must read the rest of Friendshipper and Tipper's stories; I should make it a New Year's resolution.
I have, I think, read all of Dr. Dredd's stories. Her Carson stories are particularly notable (she has a number; go, read them all!), and her "First Aid for Dummies" is hilarious. She has a great sense of humor and a much greater sensitivity to the moral problems of the Pegasus galaxy, and the characters' actions, than the show's writers do.
Negolith puts me firmly back into 2007, since all her stories at Wraithbait have been posted not only this year, but the second half of the year! She has an epic trilogy (tetralogy? Who knows where it will end?) beginning with "The Claws that Catch". Warning: I found the first two stories so involving I didn't want to stop reading them to do other things--such as deal with my Small Child. You might want to set aside a big block of time for those.
I'm trying not to recap my recs from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
stargateficrec. I just volunteered there, and I have three up for December (in the "Carson Beckett" category); you can check them out there if you wish (a fourth will be added tomorrow or the day after, God willing an' the creek don' rise).
ETA: Brief version: recs for "Moral Compass" (and "Rabbi's Son"), by Dr. Dredd; for "Fearless," by Murron; and for "In the Afterlife" by Negolith.
Again, happy holidays to all! I hope you enjoy something from my recs; thanks to all my friends who write, and who write recs, so that I can keep reading good fic!
f you don't want to be linked, please tell me, and I'll edit you out. If I've forgotten you, I'm sorry! Please don't take any omissions as negatives, except about my own recollections.
For those who don't know my tastes (yet), I'm a big fan of gen and especially friendship fiction.
Redbyrd's stories are among the best I've read, and Redbyrd has given me tremendous aid and comfort as a beta-reader for my own stories. Her most recent story is her "Stop the Presses" remix of Cofax's "Freedom of the Press." Also this year, she posted the wonderful "Time Out of Mind", which appeared in a zine the previous year. (Full disclosure: I was a beta-reader for this story. ) My favorites from years past include the Endeavor series, with fully-imagined original characters, and "Rearranging Fate". Please join me in urging Redbyrd to write more fic as soon as she finds time!
Another of my favorites is Random; I've linked to her stories at All Daniel Fic, but there's also "Through the Gate Darkly", which isn't there because it's a Jack story. Probably my favorite story by Random is "No Signs". All her stories are well worth reading; take your time and savor them!
From this point, I'm not keeping much to 2007; some sites don't show the date in a clear, easy list, while other authors have been more prolific in past years. I'm torn between hoping I'm not just recommending authors and stories everyone already knows, because I don't want to waste your time, and hoping you know them, because I enjoy them so much that I hope you've already found them!
Aurora Novarum also writes great SG-1 fic (and acted as a beta for a recent SGA story I wrote). "Just a Scientist" is still among my favorites (Bill Lee! Huzzah!), as is "Many Roads". Aurora writes both the major characters and minor characters with depth and great interest.
I've read all of Travelling One's stories, and I'm always excited to find a new one. My favorites are still "Dying for Gold" and "BS, N (Both Sides, Now)"; I also love her tag for "The Shroud," "See You Alive". Her stories tend to be Daniel-centric (which is a good thing!)
Sometimes I'm really in the mood for hurt/comfort, and JoaG is one of the best. I really enjoy "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble" and "Adrift". She focuses especially on Jack and Daniel, but many of the stories have a strong team element too.
I don't read much slash, but if I do, it's usually by JoaG or Devra, including "Goodbye to Dreams", cowritten by Babs and Devra. I've posted the link to the original, not the extended version, because I haven't read the extended version yet. I went through a few too many tissues on the original to be ready for the other. Kleenex warning on the original, but do read through to the end. Really.
Another writer I love is ELG (I'm reading her Charndras original series too!). I read mostly her gen fic. Two of her best, I think, are "Salt of the Earth and "The Wine of Dionysus". The latter contains a warning about possible character rape. I usually avoid such stories, but after I'd read her others, I read "Wine," and I do recommend it. She writes Sam exceptionally well, though Daniel is most often the focal character in her stories; friendship and team are also important elements.
I know I'm forgetting people, and particularly stories by those who don't have their own sites for me to bookmark.
I'm a relative newcomer to SGA fic, but I've found some great writers.
Friendshipper/Layla Lawlor/Sholio creates not only regular fanfic but a few multimedia stories. In regular fanfic, her "Light of a Fading Sun" is brilliant. I started it two or three times before I read the whole; the beginning is, to speak like a total philistine, depressing. Stick with it. I love "Shattered Things", which I had to read a second time right after the first because I'd missed an important detail or two--and it repaid reading twice in a row! She wrote a wonderful fragment, "Safe Harbor", recently enough that I still have hope that she can be persuaded to write a longer story from it. But what first attracted me is her multimedia "Postcards to Jeannie". It's wonderful. Friendshipper writes great friendship fic, including John and Rodney, and she's one of the best writers for Teyla I've read. I haven't read all her stories yet, because many are long, and I like to spread out the good ones. My favorite may change without notice, but "Postcards to Jeannie" still has that place right now. Not surprisingly, friendship stories are her forte.
Another writer I love but whose stories I have not all read is Tipper. She also writes Teyla very well (which is good, because I think the actual scriptwriters often don't!). "Never Stop Moving" was the story that made me seek out Tipper's site (and caused me to realize I'd already read some of her stories and wonder how the frell I had not made it to her site before). I also love "Aftermath", a much-needed epilogue to "The Defiant One" (I didn't realize how badly it was needed until I read this story!). Tipper writes great friendship and team stories.
I must read the rest of Friendshipper and Tipper's stories; I should make it a New Year's resolution.
I have, I think, read all of Dr. Dredd's stories. Her Carson stories are particularly notable (she has a number; go, read them all!), and her "First Aid for Dummies" is hilarious. She has a great sense of humor and a much greater sensitivity to the moral problems of the Pegasus galaxy, and the characters' actions, than the show's writers do.
Negolith puts me firmly back into 2007, since all her stories at Wraithbait have been posted not only this year, but the second half of the year! She has an epic trilogy (tetralogy? Who knows where it will end?) beginning with "The Claws that Catch". Warning: I found the first two stories so involving I didn't want to stop reading them to do other things--such as deal with my Small Child. You might want to set aside a big block of time for those.
I'm trying not to recap my recs from
stargateficrec. I just volunteered there, and I have three up for December (in the "Carson Beckett" category); you can check them out there if you wish (a fourth will be added tomorrow or the day after, God willing an' the creek don' rise).ETA: Brief version: recs for "Moral Compass" (and "Rabbi's Son"), by Dr. Dredd; for "Fearless," by Murron; and for "In the Afterlife" by Negolith.
Again, happy holidays to all! I hope you enjoy something from my recs; thanks to all my friends who write, and who write recs, so that I can keep reading good fic!
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