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Fast Food? By Sally Manton (G)
Fandom:BLAKES7
Pairing:None
Author on LJ:?
Why this must be read:
Blakes7 canon moves directly from Blake's, Avon's and Jenna's hijack of the vast alien spaceship Liberator to their arrival at Cygnus Alpha...presumably, four months later (because the prison ship London, which is obviously a horrible old tub, gets to Cygnus Alpha first, and the mutiny came halfway through the eight-month voyage from Earth to Cygnus Alpha).
Many episodes later, we learn that the ship was built by an alien race, the Altas (although it's never explained what for; Willa Shakespeare's "intergalactic knocking shop" explanation seems as plausible as any). But what, exactly, characterizes Alta cuisine?
Sally Manton posits that a desperate five-hour search at last produced water some kind of communal shower, Jenna had suggested-communal meaning at least five hundred people and vast vats that fed out processed mush in flavours unimagined by man or beast--although Blake's and Avon's boarding school experience at least taught them what a pureed Sirian slimeworm tastes like. But at last, after an early entry in the Blake-Avon snipe sweepstakes (what one might call .tiff files), they find...not a winner, he thought, not that good--survival rations, I think.
Read it because it's funny, admirably disgusting when it needs to be, lightly sketched but perfectly characterized, and an all-too-plausible look at shipboard life when the damn thing doesn't come with an instruction manual.
Fast Food?
Pairing:None
Author on LJ:?
Why this must be read:
Blakes7 canon moves directly from Blake's, Avon's and Jenna's hijack of the vast alien spaceship Liberator to their arrival at Cygnus Alpha...presumably, four months later (because the prison ship London, which is obviously a horrible old tub, gets to Cygnus Alpha first, and the mutiny came halfway through the eight-month voyage from Earth to Cygnus Alpha).
Many episodes later, we learn that the ship was built by an alien race, the Altas (although it's never explained what for; Willa Shakespeare's "intergalactic knocking shop" explanation seems as plausible as any). But what, exactly, characterizes Alta cuisine?
Sally Manton posits that a desperate five-hour search at last produced water some kind of communal shower, Jenna had suggested-communal meaning at least five hundred people and vast vats that fed out processed mush in flavours unimagined by man or beast--although Blake's and Avon's boarding school experience at least taught them what a pureed Sirian slimeworm tastes like. But at last, after an early entry in the Blake-Avon snipe sweepstakes (what one might call .tiff files), they find...not a winner, he thought, not that good--survival rations, I think.
Read it because it's funny, admirably disgusting when it needs to be, lightly sketched but perfectly characterized, and an all-too-plausible look at shipboard life when the damn thing doesn't come with an instruction manual.
Fast Food?