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[avevale_intelligencer]

And here, as promised lo these many moons agone, are the first two of my Blake's Seven fan stories. They're immature work at best (even for me) and I've only given them the most cursory of tweakage, so be gentle with them. Apologies for any typoes I've missed.

Nyrond - this takes place between the third and fourth seasons, and contains a somewhat early version of our spacegoing bunco artists.

Powers: Of Life, And Death - this happens around the fourth season and gets past it in what I flatter myself is quite a neat fashion.

Both stories first appeared in Frak, published by Janet Ellicott, and are reprinted here with her permission. To follow, when I get it finished, will be the final story, Links, which (in the way of these things) is longer than both these put together.

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I am in awe. 'Immature' work my donkey, those are /good/. (OK, I did turn off the spellchecker, but only because it kept objecting to proper names of places and people, for some reason OpenOffice neglected to put the names of Nyronds and Blake's 7 characters and planets into the dictionary.)

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

That's funny, it did in mine... :)

Thank you, kind sir. As Soren said, if you've enjoyed the show, please tell your friends. I'll be here all week. :)

[aunty_marion]

I haven't got round to reading these yet, but I suspect my spool-chicken may well have quite a few of the B7 names in it. Somehow. I blame the Countess, personally.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm less than a third of the way through the first one, but I just had to pop back here and say: This is *Goooooooood*!

And I love the thought of Blake as "Mr Angry of Terra" (who states his occupation as 'alleged terrorist'). =:o}

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

[FINISHES]

[WILD APPLAUSE]

=:o}

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Reading the second one today. Just hit this:
"Kasso...Kasso's body beneath him, arching and writing as if galvanised by the ferocity of his love..."

Well, that's one way of beating writer's block, I guess... =;o>

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Well, erm...a lot of fan fiction that I was reading at the time had what is called these days "adult content," and I used to get mildly boggled by what I saw as the lengths that people would go to in order to set up these situations between characters whom I only ever saw as "just good friends," if not mere acquaintances thrown together by fate. So I gave that bit to the characters I'd invented, which solved the problem neatly. It's also fairly important to the plot that the three of them care about each other a lot, and that is one time-honoured way of making that clear. I wasn't quite brave enough at that point to complete the triangle, though.

...aaaaaand I've just realised you were talking about the typo I hadn't noticed. *goes an unfeasible shade of red* And now I have a brand new visual to torment my sleepless nights. ("Yes! Yes!!! Oh damn, my pen's run out.") Thanks a lot. :)

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

"*goes an unfeasible shade of red* "

Tsk! Feasible shade of red only, please! =:o}


Anyway, I took a break halfway through, came back and now I've finished it.

It doesn't work quite as well as the first one, I think mainly 'cos the plot is long and involves several blocks of brand new characters, but the narrative doesn't quite establish them properly before throwing the next lot at you. Basically, this is a very good 100 page novella with some big chunks of character development (and smaller bits of description in the dialog-y bits) missing - hence only 54 pages.

I twigged what the "twist" was before I reached the halfway point: The "we were too late to save they eye comment", coming out of the blue gave it away, and I was thinking "clues like that need to be hidden better"... But then I twigged that this is basically a kind of Greek tragedy - like the original episode - but with a different victim at the heart of it. We know he's doomed, but the story is in how exactly he comes to his end, and how it serves the needs or confounds the plans of the people around him. I think, if you give more time to introducing Teleb's rescuers before he comes round, and then develop Teleb-as-B's experiences a little bit more, it'll work better.

And yes, an elegant solution. =:o}

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Yes. As I said, immature work. I'd take longer over it now.

Thank you for thoughtful comment.

[soren-nyrond.livejournal.com]

And, once again, he shoots - - - he scores !!!

Ah, old friends -- I was reading Enigma again the other day, and got a yearning for the Fraks. But they're G*d knows where - and then you put up linkage. Yay !!!

As to self-deprecation, don't !!! I remember the hours if not days of planning you put into these and I look forward to Link,s which for some reason I never got round to 1st time (Is that the giant squirrels, or is that somewhere else ?)