Responsible
Oct 9, 2006
Short story set in the same universe as the marvelous A Deeper Season (see my rec), but far in the future. This is only one of the snippets available from this universe; see E.E. Beck’s livejournal for more.
A Deeper Season
Apr 15, 2006
Okay. Okay. I’m very excited right now, but I’m going to try to be coherent. I have just finished one of the most enjoyable stories I’ve read in a long time. And it’s something I never thought could be done well: Gregor/Miles slash. It’s takes a bit of suspension of disbelief, since LMB obviously didn’t write the books with this pairing in mind, but A Deeper Season is what the book after Memory might have looked like if she had. The story is only slightly AU, completely canon through Memory except that Laisa never happens.
I found this story accidentally; while googling ‘vashnoi’ I found a recommendation of A Deeper Season at The Bog of Lost Scholars. I heartily agree with everything Castiron says about it there. She(?) says it as well as I ever could, so if you need more convincing to read A Deeper Season, check out what she has to say about it.
I think I have to go re-read my favourite scenes now.
“We’re going to the symphony tonight,” Gregor said.
“We as in you and the Cetagandans?” Miles asked, having somewhat surreal mental images.
ETA: The sequel, What Passing Bells, is now finished! It’s really good, definitely up to the standard set by A Deeper Season.
ETA: The third (and final) planned co-written instalment in the series is Seeds, an Ivan/Ekaterin fic roughly equivalent to Winterfair Gifts.
A Deeper Season by E.E. Beck and Sahiya