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My Father’s House Has Many Rooms. The Sarah Connor Chronicles. James Ellison before and after the apocalypse, building community and keeping the faith. Good dialogue, good characterization, thoughtful.
”Jesus is saying that to be a good person, you should help anyone who needs it, no matter how different they are from you."
"Everyone is different from me," said John Henry, placid as always.
The Sun Shone On Venus. From Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer In A Day,” the one about the kid who gets locked in a broom closet for the one hour that the sun shines on Venus. This is exactly the sort of thing fanfic does best - taking a short, iconic story built around a single, powerful, emotional moment, giving the sketched-in characters and setting complexity and depth, and then bringing it all back home to that single, powerful, emotional moment.
Margot did like the sun lamps they brought her, one after another, until she had a great heap of them in the corner of her room. There were far too many to light all at once, but Margot put five of them on top of her dresser. If she squinted her eyes, she could imagine the five golden bulbs were one great big, yellow one. A miniature sun all her own.
Fish in a Barrel. Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. Long, engrossing, action-packed account of Finnick’s Game. Very much in the spirit of the first book, brutal and violent and landing a few punches that the first book pulled. I could have read an entire book of this, and enjoyed it much more than I did Mockingjay.
When you wake, you make a small fire in the shadow of a rocky outcropping, where the smoke will gather. There, you begin smoking your fish so that they will keep as you travel; your clothes are still damp enough to chafe, so you peel off the stained tunic and leggings and let them dry by the fire.
Almost at once, a rain of parcels falls at the mouth of your cave: a little mesh bag of oranges, new batteries for your cold stocking, replacements for your missing knives, a bundle of oven-fresh bread. You can't help breaking into a grin at the shower of presents, and you tear into the bread first, while it's still hot. "I'll have to take off my clothes more often," you tell the air, laughing, and you can almost hear the people at the Capitol laughing along with you.
21st Century Girls. Based on Naoki Urasawa’s intricate, mind-bending manga 20th Century Boys (Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 1: Friends
). I read this because I was tipped off that it doesn’t spoil the manga, except in general terms for what happens to the world and Friend in the future, as it almost entirely involves original characters. Here the boys of canon, who bond and form a secret society based on their shared love of Western rock music, are paralleled by a group of girls who bond over shoujo manga – the sparklier the better – grow up, and try to save the real world, or at least their friends, with the power of love and gel glitter pens.
Megumi made a fist, aiming the ring on her finger at the enemy. "Ha! You may have tried to subvert Gemini Senshi, but my Emerald Star Crystal has lifted your evil spell with the power of love and justice!"
Finally, I have to link to a link to a story based on the movie “Sharktopus,” mostly for the clip of Sharktopus doing what Sharktopus does best.
”Jesus is saying that to be a good person, you should help anyone who needs it, no matter how different they are from you."
"Everyone is different from me," said John Henry, placid as always.
The Sun Shone On Venus. From Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer In A Day,” the one about the kid who gets locked in a broom closet for the one hour that the sun shines on Venus. This is exactly the sort of thing fanfic does best - taking a short, iconic story built around a single, powerful, emotional moment, giving the sketched-in characters and setting complexity and depth, and then bringing it all back home to that single, powerful, emotional moment.
Margot did like the sun lamps they brought her, one after another, until she had a great heap of them in the corner of her room. There were far too many to light all at once, but Margot put five of them on top of her dresser. If she squinted her eyes, she could imagine the five golden bulbs were one great big, yellow one. A miniature sun all her own.
Fish in a Barrel. Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. Long, engrossing, action-packed account of Finnick’s Game. Very much in the spirit of the first book, brutal and violent and landing a few punches that the first book pulled. I could have read an entire book of this, and enjoyed it much more than I did Mockingjay.
When you wake, you make a small fire in the shadow of a rocky outcropping, where the smoke will gather. There, you begin smoking your fish so that they will keep as you travel; your clothes are still damp enough to chafe, so you peel off the stained tunic and leggings and let them dry by the fire.
Almost at once, a rain of parcels falls at the mouth of your cave: a little mesh bag of oranges, new batteries for your cold stocking, replacements for your missing knives, a bundle of oven-fresh bread. You can't help breaking into a grin at the shower of presents, and you tear into the bread first, while it's still hot. "I'll have to take off my clothes more often," you tell the air, laughing, and you can almost hear the people at the Capitol laughing along with you.
21st Century Girls. Based on Naoki Urasawa’s intricate, mind-bending manga 20th Century Boys (Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 1: Friends
). I read this because I was tipped off that it doesn’t spoil the manga, except in general terms for what happens to the world and Friend in the future, as it almost entirely involves original characters. Here the boys of canon, who bond and form a secret society based on their shared love of Western rock music, are paralleled by a group of girls who bond over shoujo manga – the sparklier the better – grow up, and try to save the real world, or at least their friends, with the power of love and gel glitter pens.Megumi made a fist, aiming the ring on her finger at the enemy. "Ha! You may have tried to subvert Gemini Senshi, but my Emerald Star Crystal has lifted your evil spell with the power of love and justice!"
Finally, I have to link to a link to a story based on the movie “Sharktopus,” mostly for the clip of Sharktopus doing what Sharktopus does best.
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