Fic: Recollection

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have posted my story on my site's fiction page:

Lynx Part 4 - Recollection

Although it's the fourth part in a series, really, this one pretty much stands on its own. Briefly, it's set after the series, and Soolin and Vila are together and living on Lindor, working for Tyce Sarkoff (who doesn't even appear in this). Avon and Tarrant have their own spaceship. Tarrant recently found he had been programmed by Space Fleet to betray the crew, and Soolin discovered that her sister had been made into a mutoid after the rest of her family was killed. This story is all about the recovery of Soolin's sister.

I think that's enough, even for someone who doesn't know Blake's 7. :-) Vila's a thief, Soolin a sharpshooter, Tarrant a pilot, and Avon a computer expert, genius, and could possibly out-snark House--and they're all rebels. That's Soolin in the icon. :-)

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

It's moving towards a happy ending for everyone! (Well, everyone who isn't Blake ;-) Or otherwise dead). Ilka adds an intriguing new dynamic to the crew. She's got two such different sides to her newly integrated personality - the one Tarrant fancies, who doesn't like maths, and the ex-mutoid - and that mkes her very intriguing.

And now I know what you mean about the twist to the girder. It would have been fun to ride on one of those things, if it weren't so horrifically high up. I knew just how Soolin felt.

Having read the extracts on Pico, it was really fun spotting them in context. I found myself thinking "Oh, that's how that part fits in!" I'm really impressed by your self-discipline in keepng going on such a mammoth project - I remember you talking about you "big PGP" when I still lived in English - and now it's amost finished! Only one part to go. You must be feeling really chuffed.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And Avon may prefer the 172 personality. :-) Actually I don't plan to pair them all off; just leave some possibilities open. But yes, there will be a happy ending, though the Federation is still there; the bigger they are, the slower they fall (though the USSR was surprisingly quick).

I thought up the scene a while back, but in a much more complicated and scary form, when it occurred to me that Soolin would have grown up without encountering much in the way of heights, and it would be a nice twist if Vila were the brave one. He does do well when he's needed; see how strong he is with Kerril when she puts on the frightened please-help-me act. (Well, that's what I have to assume when a tough gunhand screams at a few webs.)

The first part of the series was almost Nano length, but the others have all hovered round the 10k mark, so it's not that huge. I need to think up some extra stuff for the last part though; all I have so far is the battle and the very end.