The World Turned Upside Down by Jenna Hilary Sinclair

Okay, I actually have no memory of this story at all. I’m trying to clear out my “To be rec’d” bookmarks folder, since there are things there that I ought to have rec’d months ago, and I’m just not in the mood to read a long TOS story right now. So all I can tell you about this is that it’s Kirk/Spock, and when I read it, I thought it was worth recommending. Eventually I’ll write a real summary for it (or at least, one of the lazy single sentences that pass for summaries on this site.)

ETA: Story withdrawn and published as original fiction.

Broken Link // Explicit // Romance

For those of you who don’t know it, or for those who, like me, keep forgetting it, www.archive.org is the home of the Internet Archive, which has a very special and wonderful tool called the Wayback Machine.

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

The Wayback Machine allows you to search for archived copies of particular pages; it’s kind of like the google cache, but without a time limit.

It means that I can post links to stories that have disappeared without warning, but I’m not going to do this if it’s clear that the author has removed the story herself and doesn’t want it to be available anymore.

So, if you read a rec that has a broken link, look for the link to the Wayback Machine for an old, archived copy of the story.

If any authors have taken their stories offline on purpose, let me know and I’ll take down the link.

Good Citizens by Manna

Follow-up to my recommendation of The Administration.

The following is part of another Administration novel, Good Citizens. This is set in the Administration, but has an entirely new cast of characters, taking the spotlight away from the corporate world, and the offices and I&I, and turning it onto citizens at the other end of the Administration’s social scale. There is no guarantee it will be finished, and may be revised or removed at any time—read at your own risk. At the moment I’m not working on any Administration stories, so Good Citizens is unlikely to be finished in the forseeable future.

Even though it isn’t and may never be finished, Good Citizens is an incredible read. When I read The Administration, I had a hard time really feeling the resister point of view. I understood it intellectually, but not viscerally.

But now I get it.

I fervently wish to see this story finished, although I’m afraid it probably won’t be. It hasn’t been updated since late 2003, anyway, so don’t look forward to new material anytime soon.

ETA: Seems to have been removed from Manna’s site, although I couldn’t find anything there saying why.

ETA: Good Citizens is no longer available online. Manna has said that she’s done some work on it lately, so it may eventually be finished, and possibly published, along with the main Administration series.

Broken Link // Explicit // Future Dystopia // Het // Mystery // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Torture // WIP

Full Fathom Five by Anais

It’s canon that Horatio arrived on Justinian and met Archie before Simpson returned. I’m not sure if Archie’s background here contradicts canon or just fanon, but I’m not sure that I care, either.

ETA: All Anais’s fanfic is offline for the forseeable future.

Broken Link // Teen // Top 100

Living Dead Girl by Pet

Spike’s a girl. First in a series.

Girl You Know It’s True
What A Girl Wants
For The Girl Who Has Everything
What It Feels Like For A Girl

Broken Link // Explicit // Het // Romance

All hearts, which I by lacking by Ellen Fremedon

In which storms are brewing, wine is drunk, and the prince of stories tells stories of his own.

Broken Link // Romance // Teen

Bildungsroman by Lorena

Also Wufei/other.

An AU about Quatre’s coming of age at a Catholic boarding school. Series of 11 stories. It’s long–the first story, Chiaroscuro, is 26 parts long, but it’s definitely worth it. After Chiaroscuro, the rest are just follow-up fics or missing scenes, so you can read them out of order without missing anything. My fave is Notes to the Virgin because it’s funny. Oh, the liver! I’m laughing just thinking about it.

The link to the series doesn’t seem to be working anymore; I haven’t found anything except a copy of the first story, Chiaroscuro. Hopefully I’ll be able to find links to the side stories soon.

ETA: This series is no longer available online; the author has removed her fanfiction from the web and begun to submit original fiction for publication.

AU // Broken Link // Coming of Age // Explicit // Humour // Non-con // Romance // Top 100 // Underage Sex

Birthright by Baylor

Faculty/X-Files

I know nothing about either of these fandoms. I have never seen The Faculty; all I know is that it’s about a high school, and eventually a town, that get taken over by aliens. A group of five students save the day. I have only seen one episode of the X-Files. Trust me; you don’t need to know anything about these fandoms to enjoy Birthright.

This is probably one of the more unusual love stories you’ll ever read. The story is AU: what if the invasion they stopped was part of a wider alien takeover? Well, that’s where the X-Files comes in.

ETA: Author has taken the story temporarily offline.

Action // AU // Broken Link // Crossover // Darkfic // Mature // Romance