Atlantis
I have a long queue of other stories waiting to be recommended, but sometimes a story comes along, so wonderful that it sweeps you away, and this is one of those.
A selection of passages from scholarly works treating the events following Atlantis’s break from the SGC and Earth, interspersed with the story of those same events. My mind boggles at the amount of work that must have gone into this, over and above the work of conceiving and creating such a marvellous tale.
“Yeah, I like it,” John said, sitting back.
Rodney jerked a sharp look at him. “You mean, I actually get to name something?”
“Just this one thing.”
“Oh, well, fine. So an electronic identity card that serves as a provisional IDC, situates its owner within a trust network, and can be used to effect trades in units of Mars Bars?”
“Exactly,” John said. “It beats the fuck out of Amex.”
Although there’s McShep, it’s really mostly a gen story.
Action // Gen // Historical // NC-17 // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Top 100 // Top Ten