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A Show of Strength by Meredith (R)
Fandom: X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Author on LJ: n/a
Author's website: here
Why this must be read:
My favorite genre of XF fanfiction is probably post-colonization, or post-col for short. Post-col stories take the issue of alien invasion which was dangled before the viewers so enticingly during the show, and play it out to the extreme. What you get in post-col is angst, and death, and heroics, sometimes in equal measure. It's up to the writer to decide whether the plot will involve epidemics, or cloning, or just rampant destruction: all of these possibilities were raised during the series, so the ficwriters get a free hand in their plotting.
One of the best post-col stories around is Meredith's A Show of Strength, which addresses the cloning issue from an intensely personal perspective. It's brilliant and wrenching, and makes you feel for someone you would never expect to.
I wonder what it would have been like to have grown up.
To be a child -- playing, crying, laughing, learning, loving. To be created stupid and slowly get smarter. So very slowly. I think it would be hell. Wasting 21 painstaking years, at the minimum, just to get to the starting point.
It must be agony for them.
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Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Author on LJ: n/a
Author's website: here
Why this must be read:
My favorite genre of XF fanfiction is probably post-colonization, or post-col for short. Post-col stories take the issue of alien invasion which was dangled before the viewers so enticingly during the show, and play it out to the extreme. What you get in post-col is angst, and death, and heroics, sometimes in equal measure. It's up to the writer to decide whether the plot will involve epidemics, or cloning, or just rampant destruction: all of these possibilities were raised during the series, so the ficwriters get a free hand in their plotting.
One of the best post-col stories around is Meredith's A Show of Strength, which addresses the cloning issue from an intensely personal perspective. It's brilliant and wrenching, and makes you feel for someone you would never expect to.
I wonder what it would have been like to have grown up.
To be a child -- playing, crying, laughing, learning, loving. To be created stupid and slowly get smarter. So very slowly. I think it would be hell. Wasting 21 painstaking years, at the minimum, just to get to the starting point.
It must be agony for them.
Don't forget to send feedback!