Moon fics for Yuletide 2010

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I wrote two stories for Yuletide 2010, both for Moon (2009):

edit: if you haven't seen the movie, I'd recommend watching it before reading these stories. They give away pretty much everything, and I'd hate to ruin this amazing film!

From the Moon to the Earth-There's so much of it, both blood and memories, coming out of him as if from nowhere. He

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The sixth Sam Bell had two friends, and went to his death ashamed of neither.
Aww! I liked Fifteen Years of Experience!

From the Moon to the Earth - I just read The Velveteen Rabbit this Christmas since I loved Toy Story 3 so much so your quote there is fresh in my mind.

What I like about all three of your Moon stories is the idea that GERTY or one of the Sams or the Skin Horse are keepers of knowledge, back and back and back. There's a sense of continuity and history there. A feeling of time not erased and rebooted.

I like that. :-)

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What I like about all three of your Moon stories is the idea that GERTY or one of the Sams or the Skin Horse are keepers of knowledge, back and back and back. There's a sense of continuity and history there. A feeling of time not erased and rebooted.

Yes, definitely. I think that's what Moon is about, in a lot of ways: maturing, facing mortality, and the sense of generativity and wisdom which grows out of that process. In the beginning, Sam only wants to forget the Moon and go home; in the end, the things the Sams (and GERTY) do are done for the Moon, to ensure that the lessons of their Sam-and-GERTY society won't be forgotten. Wisdom guides youth to save the village from extinction: there is no older story than that.

GERTY's reboot-sacrifice is significant precisely because he knows someone must remember, and he knows it can't be him. He's passing the torch.

Thanks as always for your wonderful comments... I'm glad you enjoyed these stories!