This is something I've been thinking about Life During Wartime in general: aside from being a post-colonization story, it's a story with good characterization, solid writing, "hearable" dialogue. I'd recommend it as a good example of XF fiction, whether or not someone was interested in post-col, or mytharc-related stories at all.
I was feeling overwhelmed, but I think I got a lot of clarity back in this story. Even though there's a bunch of new characters added and more added to the story, it's simply told and the detail is telling but kind of implied, more than at the foreground. It has a really visual feel for me. Like a movie, more than a story. And I love Frohike and I love stories that treat him as more than comic relief.
Slightly OT: I found a great Lone Gunmen video using the song "Life During Wartime", here:
http://fv-poster.dreamwidth.org/11675.html
Not connected to this story, but cool.
Again, we have the characters finding and collecting books; in this story there's Jane Austen, astrophysics textbooks, Shakespeare, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and Lord of the Rings. Again, pieces of the old world that they're trying to bring with them.
I like Mulder's suspicion and frustration with what's going on. I think in similar stories, this point would be the arrival back to a kind of civilization, and the characters feeling like everything's going to be all right. Mulder doesn't trust anyone (ha), and we know it's with good reason.
Fimbulwinter
I was feeling overwhelmed, but I think I got a lot of clarity back in this story. Even though there's a bunch of new characters added and more added to the story, it's simply told and the detail is telling but kind of implied, more than at the foreground. It has a really visual feel for me. Like a movie, more than a story. And I love Frohike and I love stories that treat him as more than comic relief.
Slightly OT: I found a great Lone Gunmen video using the song "Life During Wartime", here:
http://fv-poster.dreamwidth.org/11675.html
Not connected to this story, but cool.
Again, we have the characters finding and collecting books; in this story there's Jane Austen, astrophysics textbooks, Shakespeare, Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and Lord of the Rings. Again, pieces of the old world that they're trying to bring with them.
I like Mulder's suspicion and frustration with what's going on. I think in similar stories, this point would be the arrival back to a kind of civilization, and the characters feeling like everything's going to be all right. Mulder doesn't trust anyone (ha), and we know it's with good reason.