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Axiomatic by Jei (PG)
Fandon: GUNDAM WING (fandom summary)
Pairing: Heero/Duo
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: the turnip patch
Why this must be read: Because it has one of the most original premises of any GW story I've ever read. In the years since the war, Heero has made a new life for himself, and adapted to living among ordinary people. Still in contact with Une, although not with the other pilots, he sometimes takes on jobs for her. This time, it's more serious than any of his previous peacetime missions.
Axiomatic, besides being a long, plotty thriller, is also a sci-fi story that explores deeply into an oft-neglected aspect of GW canon. While preparing this rec, I discovered that Axiomatic now has a sequel, Additive Identity (which doesn't surprise me; the ending of Axiomatic kind of cries out for one.)
This sounded more serious than the few other occasions Une had directly contacted me. Once, she had requested some information mining of me, and I had obliged without leaving my apartment. I had done a little clandestine work on-base, but none of it had been so indefinite. This sounded like a full investigation. I didn't normally do that, and she knew it. "What do you need me for?"
"Your unique experience makes you the most qualified man to act as a consultant in this matter."
Consultant? That backed my investigation theory. Unique? It couldn't be the fact that I had been a Gundam pilot, then. She had the other four to tap as resources in that arena. 01, then? Wing was gone, my connections to the crew on L1 dissolved. What skills did I possess that at least one of the others did not? Leadership? Hardly. Assassination? Not even. A healthy disregard for my personal safety? Getting colder by the second.
A blink or two later, and a possibility sprang to mind, a distinctly unpleasant possibility, and the number of ways it could have turned into an incident of this magnitude multiplied with a blinding flash on the insides of my eyelids.
Axiomatic
Pairing: Heero/Duo
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: the turnip patch
Why this must be read: Because it has one of the most original premises of any GW story I've ever read. In the years since the war, Heero has made a new life for himself, and adapted to living among ordinary people. Still in contact with Une, although not with the other pilots, he sometimes takes on jobs for her. This time, it's more serious than any of his previous peacetime missions.
Axiomatic, besides being a long, plotty thriller, is also a sci-fi story that explores deeply into an oft-neglected aspect of GW canon. While preparing this rec, I discovered that Axiomatic now has a sequel, Additive Identity (which doesn't surprise me; the ending of Axiomatic kind of cries out for one.)
This sounded more serious than the few other occasions Une had directly contacted me. Once, she had requested some information mining of me, and I had obliged without leaving my apartment. I had done a little clandestine work on-base, but none of it had been so indefinite. This sounded like a full investigation. I didn't normally do that, and she knew it. "What do you need me for?"
"Your unique experience makes you the most qualified man to act as a consultant in this matter."
Consultant? That backed my investigation theory. Unique? It couldn't be the fact that I had been a Gundam pilot, then. She had the other four to tap as resources in that arena. 01, then? Wing was gone, my connections to the crew on L1 dissolved. What skills did I possess that at least one of the others did not? Leadership? Hardly. Assassination? Not even. A healthy disregard for my personal safety? Getting colder by the second.
A blink or two later, and a possibility sprang to mind, a distinctly unpleasant possibility, and the number of ways it could have turned into an incident of this magnitude multiplied with a blinding flash on the insides of my eyelids.
Axiomatic
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If you haven't had a chance to read it yet, it's just as good (and I think maybe just as long) as Axiomatic. It doesn't end quite as abruptly, but there's definitely room for a third story in the series...*fingers crossed*