Interview meme
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lizbee asks here:1. You've reviewed almost 1000 fics in various fandoms for NetFic Reviews. Do you have any favourites?
Has it really been almost 1000? (goes and looks) No, it isn't even 900 yet. Modesty forbids me claiming "almost 1000" until I've done more than 950. 8-P
Well, the easy answer to the question is to tell you to look at the best-of page, but I haven't revised it since 2003. Hmmm, maybe I should pick one favourite per fandom, though some fandoms would be much easier than others. And I shall decide whether or not to count crossovers as separate fandoms (or even to include a particular fandom) on my complete whim. And I reserve the right to change my mind later.
Angel
Angel/Doctor Who
"City Of" by Nostalgia
Babylon 5
Babylon 5/Sentinel
"A Conversation With Mr .Garibaldi" by Axianna
Blake's 7
"Vila's Emails" by Nicola Mody aka
vilakinsBuffy
"Phoenix Burning" by Yahtzee
Buffy/Dark Angel
"Witness" by hth
Harry Potter/Buffy
"The End of the Beginning" by Mariner
Buffy/Hercules
"When Hellmouths Collide" by Kimberley Rector & Martha Wilson
Buffy/Highlander
"Never Throw Your Life Away" by HGH
Buffy/Sandman
"Hot chocolate, discussion and Death at 2:00 am" by Elena Zovatto
Buffy/Star Wars
"Jedi Harris" by TheDarkScribbler
Buffy/Stargate
"The Scarab" by
bktheirregularSentinel/Buffy
"Of Shadows and Demons" by Mackie
Doctor Who
The Synaesthesia trilogy by R.J. Anderson aka
synaesthete7Doctor Who/Sandman
"Brief Encounters, Brief Lives" by A.C. Chapin
Farscape
Farscape/Star Trek: The Next Generation
"Res-Q" by
astrogirl2Forever Knight
Forever Knight/Touched By An Angel
"Angels of Light" by Azar
Harry Potter
The Darkness And Light series by R.J. Anderson aka
synaesthete7Harry Potter/Sandman
"The Language That God Speaks" by Liz Barr aka
lizbeeHighlander
"Yom Kippur" series by Teresa Coffman
Highlander/Buffy/Sentinel
"Letters Home" by Melina Clark
Highlander/Narnia
"Up in the Valley, Down on the Mountain" by Amand-r
Highlander/Touched By An Angel
"A Gathering of Angels" by Maygra de Rhema
Lois & Clark
"The Penfriend" by Wendy Richards
Sentinel
Too hard to pick just one.
"Color and Light" by Anonymeek"
"Imperfections" by Dasha
"Coming Up For Air" by Delilah
"Smoke and Mirrors" by K. Ryn
"The Heart Hath Its Reasons" by Meredith Lynne
Sentinel/Champions
"The Path of Strangers" by Olywn Mitchell
Sentinel/Highlander
"Princes of the Universe" by D.L. Witherspoon
Sentinel/Nash Bridges/Millennium
"No Center Line" by L.R.H. Balzer
Sentinel/Poltergeist the Legacy
"Our Unconquerable Soul" by Sealie
Sentinel/Professionals
"You Watch The Hippy, I'll Take Goldilocks" by Gil Hale
Sentinel/Stargate
"The Limits of Trust" by Sheila Paulson
Sentinel/Stargate/Invisible Man
"Actualize This" by Helena Handbasket
Sentinel/X-Files
"The Inquisitor" by Sorka
Shadow
"Anything Is Possible... And Nothing Is Impossible" by Kimberley Murphy-Smith
(Kathryn contemplates giving up, sighs, and continues)
Stargate
"The Body Electric" by Meredith Lynne
"Irreplaceable" by XmagicalX
Stargate/Highlander
"Changing of the Guard" by Ecolea
Stargate/Quantum Leap
"Interference Patterns" by BT
Tolkien
Spirits of the House by
altariel1Tomorrow People
"Consolation" by Megan Freeman
X-Files
"Possessions" by R.J. Anderson aka
synaesthete7X-Files/Sandman
"Glass Hearts" by David Hearne
X-Files/Touched By An Angel/Piercing the Darkness
"Divine Intervention" by Laura Picken
2. Do you find that being an Australian in fandom gives you a different perspective on things?(Or is this just a Liz!idiosyncracy?) Access to a different range of TV shows, books and zines?
Yes. Or maybe it just gets me into culture clashes. Or just clashes (sigh). (Sorry, thinking about a recent discussion elsewhere that degenerated into an argument partly because I was making different assumptions than the American I was discussing with). I tend to find I often have more in common with the Brits than the Americans -- of course this is an overly general generalization.
Even though we moan about not getting overseas TV shows until six months later, we're still in a good position because we get both US and UK shows and our own as well (well, not that Australia produces any SF except children's SF -- though we do produce good children's SF...)
But there really isn't all that much home-grown SF in any medium...
Books are about the same, I think -- and I tend to buy half of mine from Amazon anyway, so it's tres expensive.
And I haven't been buying many zines lately, except for stuff by known authors.
3. Zines verus the internet: Pontificate, please.
(puts on pontification hat and sticks tongue into cheek)
I don't know what the world is coming to. Why, back in my day, when you got a zine, it would be full of illos; now you get a zine and you're lucky to get any interior illustrations at all. Zines were zines in those days. And as for the internet, bah, there's nothing like holding a real zine in your hands, taking it with you to read, drooling over the illos, flicking over to your favourite story and reading it again.
These young whippersnappers, they don't think anything exists unless it's on the World-Wide-Web, and the ones who hang around fanfiction.net wouldn't know quality if it hit them with a two-by-four. In fact, I bet they don't even know what a two-by-four is. And if they by any chance have heard of zines, they think they're entitled to get a copy for free, because they insist zines ought to be available on the internet too (well, I'm rather rankled about this, because I've had some bad encounters with people who had that kind of attitude, as well as others who were properly grateful when I did eventually put some of my zines up).
(seriously now)
Swings and roundabouts. From a reader's point of view, I like holding zines in my hands, and the illos, and the editing. I like the internet for its convenience and cheapness (no, the internet is not free).
As an author I like getting tribber's copies of zines, I like working with good editors. I like the internet as an author because one gets a lot more feedback, and a lot quicker.
If you want to ask me anything, do so in the comments. If you want me to interview you, likewise. Go forth and interview.
