FK Fanfic: "Fearful Symmetry"

[brightknightie]

I posted my second oldschoolfic story to fkfic-l this weekend.  A few scenes have been rewritten since the ficathon, but it's largely the same.  I'm grateful to abby82 for the ficathon prompt!  And I'm obliged to my beta-readers (see the story's endnote, as always).

"Fearful Symmetry" is entirely from Nick's perspective.  I don't often narrate from Nick's point of view, and that's curious to me.  I've been wondering from where that comes (among what the series presents, what I'm any good at writing, and what people seem to like to read).

	•	Title:	"Fearful Symmetry"
	•	Length:	~9,900 words
	•	Date:	Posted to FKFic-L November 1-2, 2008
	•	Rating:	PG (gen)
	•	Summary:	As the asteroid panic gets a second wind, Nick revisits his experiences during the 1950s Red Scare.
	•	Setting:	Flashbacks to 1954 ("Spin Doctor").  Present after "A More Permanent Hell."
	•	Characters:	Nick, Natalie, Lacroix, Janette, Others.
	•	Quotation:	"He had been so proud to be awarded tenure last year, to be recognized as a worthy and wanted permanent member of the faculty."

 

Comments

Re: "and then, like all important history-shattering artifacts, I dumped it in some storage bunker"

[dj-clawson.livejournal.com]

"Last Knight" broke a lot of hearts.

I was actually into Forever Knight a little bit when it was rerunning on sci-fi channel and I was in high school, but then I saw Last Knight, and was so disgusted I never bothered to finish watching the whole series until I downloaded it in August.

There's an interview on the season 2 DVD with James and Ger, where they comment on LK and how they wanted to make it even more tragic, and kill everyone on-camera, but the network wouldn't let them because it was considering making a TV movie. Also, they were way, WAY into Anne Rice at the time and considered murder-suicide a good "redemption" plot.

Most telling line by Ger: "Last Knight. The fans seemed not to like it at all."

Re: "and then, like all important history-shattering artifacts, I dumped it in some storage bunker"

[dj-clawson.livejournal.com]

Hey, I found another Aristotle fic.

http://www.fkvoyage.com/fkfanfic/bradley_jill/hastings.txt