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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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[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.