Story 236: "A World to Save" by Geb

[wendelah1]

To those who celebrated, I hope you had a happy Christmas.

If you were hoping for Christmas recs, sorry, I'm fresh out. Try our holiday tag. You can check out this Tumblr rec post, too. For the "access denied" Gossamer links, just highlight and hit enter.

Since the beginning of the month, I've been driving the crack_van, doing one last set of recs for The X-Files before the community closes for good the middle of January.

"A World to Save" is one of the stories I posted to crack_van. Since I reformatted this and put it up at Fugues, I thought it might be a good choice for discussion. It's Scully-centric, dark but not unrelievedly so, in the way so many post-colonization stories are. I think it's one of the best colonization stories out there, right up there in quality with "Life During Wartime," although vastly different in scope and content.

Read A World to Save. Let us know what you think, where possible, leave feedback for the author, and put your suggestions in the nomination post.

Comments

[wendelah1]

"The 13th Sign" is great, plus it has a sequel, but you can only read "7 Days in May" at Gossamer. I'd stay away from her post-col fic "Negative Utopia." That 's a dark story. No silverlining in that one. "Inventing the Mulders" is good. There's an early season casefile that's good. It's NC-17 for very adult content, though it's not MSR. "Flesh and Blood." It's not anti-msr, it's partnershipfic. I really liked "Pascal's Wager," too.

Well, those are my favorites.

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[tri-sbr.livejournal.com]

Flesh and Blood - yes! I did read that one and really liked it. Also read The 13th Sign; 7 Days in May just killed me, ripped my heart out, haunted me for weeks. It was excellent, but I haven't been able to bring myself to re-read it even though I feel like I should. I will take your navigational advice for the others - thanks :)