Category Archives: fanfiction

September/October 2014 Reading Log

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

I didn’t read very much beyond nonfiction in progress in September. Fanfiction: London Orbital by merripestin (Sherlock) features Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sally Donovan, and Greg Lestrade trapped together in a car all night, for a case. Snappy dialogue ensues. … Continue reading →

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August 2014 Reading Log

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles is second in the A Charm of Magpies series, a historical paranormal with an ongoing male/male romance. I love the way the magic is done in this series, and as usual, I … Continue reading →

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April 2014 Reading Log

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Hooray, now I’m only a year behind! Fiction: Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells was a lot of fun, with a spunky heroine, interesting nonhumans, and lots of steampunk. Wells is one of my all-time favorite fantasy authors; … Continue reading →

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Reading Log, September-October 2013

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

I haven’t posted anything substantive in this blog in a really long time! Sorry about that. I haven’t been doing a lot of writing, but as usual when not writing much, I have been reading, and I’ve been logging that … Continue reading →

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Sime-Gen and Slashiness

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Victoria Janssen

My previous post on House of Zeor (1974) by Jacqueline Lichtenberg is about Sime-Gen and Romance Novels. If you will recall, in my last post I noted that though the author of House of Zeor explicitly excluded sexuality from the … Continue reading →

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Sime-Gen and Romance Novels

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Victoria Janssen

A shorthand description of the Sime-Gen series is “Science Fictional Vampires,” but the stories are far from being that simple. The Simes, human mutants with tentacles housed in their arms, can only live through drawing life force from the Gens, … Continue reading →

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Fanfiction Linkgasm

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Victoria Janssen

Today’s linkgasm compiles some stories that I think might be enjoyable to those who don’t normally read fanfiction. Before the End of All Things by C.J. Marlowe – a contemporary take on Hamlet and Ophelia. The Quiet Padawan by torch … Continue reading →

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Fanfiction and Feedback

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Victoria Janssen

I’ve been meaning to post about fanfiction for a while, not really in connection with recent online discussions of literary fanfiction. Instead I want to talk about one particular reason why people write fanfiction. They write fanfiction for feedback, and … Continue reading →

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