Comments | gaiaanarchy: FIC: Beneath a Paper Moon (4/4)

gaiaanarchy

FIC: Beneath a Paper Moon (4/4)

Aug 25, 2007 16:10

( PART IV )

Comments 6

Oh wow, I actually maxed out the comment space. So feedback in two parts. _workinprogress August 26 2007, 11:29:37 UTC

This story just about neatly sums up why I love science fiction and fantasy. The chance to look at things from different angles - in reality we need to play the what if game, build wild hypothetical constructs and it's all so improbable and hypothetical that it's hard to really follow all of it sometimes, with scifi and fantasy, through the implausible it all becomes so much more real and it makes it so much easier to leave our preconceptions behind, even if we won't ever be able to leave all of them behind. And in a way, it makes things that much more real, like a charicature, but looking more life-like ( ... )

Re: Oh wow, I actually maxed out the comment space. So feedback in two parts. _workinprogress August 26 2007, 11:29:53 UTC

I adore your stories for making me think and feel this way; maybe not entirely presenting me ideas that are 100% new to me, but making me think more about things that have only vaguely occured to me, articulating things that were only very obscure in my mind before.
And a lot of things I agree with, some things I don't, and maybe I value those even more because through the contrast it becomes much clearer what I think ( ... )

Re: Oh wow, I actually maxed out the comment space. So feedback in two parts. gaiaanarchy August 27 2007, 05:44:32 UTC

Wow! Super long feedback! Awesome. I'm so glad you enjoyed this fic. It's one of the ones that I think ultimately might have made a better novel, because I don't think I really took the time to flesh some things out (like Tar'a and what eventually happens with her and Malcolm, or how Reed and Hayes end up together in the end). It was also very emotional for me, because I wrote it after coming back from living abroad for about half a year, so a lot of the cultural foibles there were representative of things that actually happened to me ( ... )

ymmy12 August 26 2007, 19:55:06 UTC

THIS WAS AWESOME
POWERFUL
JUST PERFECT---EXCEPT FOR WANTING MORE

roaringmice August 27 2007, 16:47:49 UTC

I did want to add, to my original comment, that one of the things that drew me in was how fully realised Matt was. He's just a sketch, on screen, and you've made him into a real person in this story.

kylielee1000 August 30 2007, 15:02:22 UTC

It's now up at W5C here. It was rec'd on the EntSTSlash list and several people have commented to the list that they liked it. Thanks again for letting W5C archive your stuff.