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The Real Life of Roj Blake by Loulou Harris (G)
Fandom: BLAKES7
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: ?
Author's Website: ?
Why this must be read:
The Way Back, the first B7 episode, gives the impression that there'll be a lot more politics in the show than actually panned out. Nor has this been a preoccupation of fanfic writers, so this would be worth reading in any event for its dual glimpse into both the "opulent" post-Federation world and the pre-TWB revolutionary movement, where the Freedom Party and the Alpha Revolutionaries didn't exactly play nicely and share their toys:
He was FP, I was AR. They hated us; well maybe that's a little harsh; they DESPISED us. [...]They believed us to have elitist credentials, argued that even the phrase 'Alpha Revolutionary' was an oxymoron! We were just a great deal more honest than they, about what we hoped to achieve.
In addition to being an excellent entry in the annals of Political B7, this story is formally very sophisticated and handles its shifts of time and voice beautifully. It's also a kind of B7 noir, because its narrator, although formally a historian, really serves the function of an LA private eye: wandering around being told things (many of them lies) in order to wind up learning something she really would prefer not to have known.
The secret at the heart of the labyrinth? Well, it's a properly disheartening idea of what the throughline of the series really is.
The Real Life of Roj Blake
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: ?
Author's Website: ?
Why this must be read:
The Way Back, the first B7 episode, gives the impression that there'll be a lot more politics in the show than actually panned out. Nor has this been a preoccupation of fanfic writers, so this would be worth reading in any event for its dual glimpse into both the "opulent" post-Federation world and the pre-TWB revolutionary movement, where the Freedom Party and the Alpha Revolutionaries didn't exactly play nicely and share their toys:
He was FP, I was AR. They hated us; well maybe that's a little harsh; they DESPISED us. [...]They believed us to have elitist credentials, argued that even the phrase 'Alpha Revolutionary' was an oxymoron! We were just a great deal more honest than they, about what we hoped to achieve.
In addition to being an excellent entry in the annals of Political B7, this story is formally very sophisticated and handles its shifts of time and voice beautifully. It's also a kind of B7 noir, because its narrator, although formally a historian, really serves the function of an LA private eye: wandering around being told things (many of them lies) in order to wind up learning something she really would prefer not to have known.
The secret at the heart of the labyrinth? Well, it's a properly disheartening idea of what the throughline of the series really is.
The Real Life of Roj Blake