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a question!
What are your favourite stories/fandoms/&c that take place in The Future? I mean things that are specifically in the future as in undated or set obviously after 2010; therefore things like 1984 or 2001: A Space Odyssey are out, but everything from Star Trek to The Road to, god help us, 2012 are in, but if you really want to tell me you like 2012, you'd better be prepared to really sell me.
(And yes, this is for a reason! It is a crossover fic reason. If this in any way informs what comes to mind, all the better.)
(And yes, this is for a reason! It is a crossover fic reason. If this in any way informs what comes to mind, all the better.)
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I'm gonna say broadly, Ursula LeGuin's Hainish cycle, and more specifically, because I haven't actually read all those books, "Four Ways to Forgiveness." It is my One Perfect Book I would take with me to a desert island, and it's in the future, and I love it more than I can bear.
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Oh man, those particular LeGuin books have been on my reading list for a while! I think I will bump them up.
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When I feel truly, truly down and disappointed with humanity, I pick up that book and read my favorite story (everyone has one) and I am filled with love and hope about the future. It's like my perfect fairytale.
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lol I am like a lesson in how not to become a bnf.
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(I ask, you see, because of Methos fic. I think that is my reason for everything these days. XD)
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I haven't heard good things about the Magicians so you will have to tell me what you think! You will love To Say Nothing of the Dog. I forget, has Becky forced Sayers on you yet? because I have now COMPLETELY come around from my earlier position re: one Peter Wimsey ("I don't care") and now spend hours rereading Gaudy Night and sighing lovingly into its covers, so I've changed my position on the advisability of you reading it first.
(Right now, Zoe is loling at me, because I think I've done the same thing to her as I have to you, which is "recommend Sayers multiple times, mentioning the same goddamn BBC adaptations as an entry drug, and then completely forget about it between instances," BUT BY GOD I'M DOING IT AGAIN.)
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Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series (Re: crossovers: I want Cordelia Vorkosigan and Susan Ivanova to meet so badly I can TASTE IT. Bonus points for including Laura Roslin as well. I've been trying to write this fic for at least a year now.)
Earth 2
Space: Above and Beyond
Star Trek, DS9 and TNG flavors (I tend to like the universe more than I do the actual series, but that's possibly because I started watching TNG when I was ten and the franchise as a whole was my first fandom.)
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I think -- I think I just went weak in the knees. Why are there not a MILLION of these fics?? I am reading a bunch of Vorkosigan books right now, but once I have decent amounts of Cordelia under my belt, I would totally try my hand at writing that. (Can Delenn hang out with them too? I still love the idea of putting Delenn and Roslin in a room together.)
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I do not know. It seems like it should be an INEVITABLE FACT OF THE UNIVERSE.
I am reading a bunch of Vorkosigan books right now, but once I have decent amounts of Cordelia under my belt, I would totally try my hand at writing that.
OMG, please, please do! (FYI, only the first two books are Cordelia-centric, to my great sadness. I mean, I love Miles--I truly, truly love Miles--but Cordelia is far too awesome to play only a supporting role for the rest of the series. Though she does that with considerable aplomb.)
Can Delenn hang out with them too? I still love the idea of putting Delenn and Roslin in a room together.
...I think I need this in my life right now.
I can just imagine all of them getting together and airlocking someone. One of the ways I contemplated getting them in the same room together was via the Doctor, likely Ten. Once they realized he was responsible for taking them all out of their universes, they'd kick his ass and possibly toss him out an airlock. (This may have more to do with me wanting Ten to get his ass kicked than anything else.)
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Other than that, I don't think I have many favorites set in the future. Doctor Who sometimes takes place in the future! And I guess I'm quite fond of Star Trek's idealism.
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I've recently been rewatching B5, too, but I assume you've already got that on the list :)
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Babylon 5 is on ALL my lists. :)
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The entire Star Trek franchise. (Except for Enterprise. I can't count that. But TOS, TNG, DS9, and Voyager...YES. So much yes.) I desperately want Methos to meet Spock and Uhura. And to snark with McCoy.
Doctor Who (which has spanned prehistoric Earth to the death of the universe, so it totally counts). Methos would have a great time just traveling with the Doctor.
Andromeda. Methos and Trance Gemini. I would PAY to see those two in the same room.
Dark Angel. Methos would hate this--a post-apocalyptic future where genetic manipulation is widely used. You know that an immortal would have a horrible time in that universe. I think that he'd get along well with Max, though.
Firefly. THERE ARE SO MANY POSSIBILITIES.
Babylon 5. SEE ABOVE.
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I now have more reasons to see more than just the pilot of Dark Angel!
Obviously in the Babylon 5 universe Methos is with the Rangers and also knows Kosh from way back. I am not sure what he would do in the Firefly 'verse, though! Be a successful and obscenely wealthy doctor on one of the Core planets? Lurk on the outskirts and stay the hell out of the way of the Alliance? I am unsure!
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Obviously, he is minding his own business as Doctor Joseph Dawson (a name which he's adopted as a memorial to his old friend) on a planet out on the Rim (because doctors in Core have all kinds of paperwork and genetic typing to keep track of them and that is the LAST thing he wants). And then, unfortunately someone very high up in the Alliance finds some of the old Methos Chronicles. And they learn about Immortals. And they also learn about Methos's Horseman days.
The Alliance thinks that Methos might be useful as an assassin, agent and torture doctor...or, if he refuses to cooperate, as an experiment.
The Hands of Blue are at his door even before he knows anything is wrong.
There is a fight. The Hands of Blue end up dead. Methos ends up fleeing for his life.
Being immortal, there's a limit to what he can do. He can't have an operation to change his face, as his face would heal the minute anyone cut it into it. He has to find someplace they would never look for him. And he hides in all kinds of terrible places. Nothing works. They keep coming.
Finally, though, he catches a break and ditches the Hands of Blue. In fact, they're still following him. They've just decided to give him enough line before they reel him in.
Methos needs a ship that will take him far, far away from trouble, no questions asked. His sources lead him to Serenity--where he runs into Zoe. Zoe doesn't know him, but hey, his money is good, and we can use another passenger.
Everything is fine until an Alliance cruiser orders Serenity to prepare to be boarded and searched. This is also the first time that Methos sees River Tam. And right before the cruiser pulls alongside, she spots him and says something like this:
"Death from the Crescent. Young-looking Death with a skull mask. A Death that's died, a death that's alive, a life of death. So many ghosts following you out of the blue and into the black. You even haunt yourself."
Followed by an unsettling smile. And as Methos is processing THAT, the cruiser pops up. And Mal is demanding answers ("You wouldn't happen to have an ancestor named MacLeod, would you?" Methos asks. "I honestly think you might be related to the father of a friend of mine.")
So Methos has to own up.
Mal is not inclined to believe Methos's story. Methos does not have time to demonstrate, as the ship is being boarded.
There is a fight. Methos, River, Zoe, Jayne and Mal kick ass. Kaylee sneaks over to the Alliance ship and sabotages it. And Serenity gets away--with a new member of the crew. River helpfully points out that it's not the first time he's been a pirate. Or an outlaw, either.
By the time he finally gets somewhere that could be safe, he doesn't want to leave Serenity.
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I mean, I am happy to write it with love and credit, but ... I have stars in my eyes right now, okay? STARS.
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Or that I really, really like the idea of Methos as an outlaw in spaaaace.
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Mostly because no one talks about it. It never became popular or got the publicity it deserved. Which is a pity because everything I've heard about it says it was awesome.
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(I wonder how many "futures" have actually ended up being about this being the second or third Earth and we end up learning that what we thought was the future was actually the origin story of how humans came to earth.)
Ugh, yes. I would love to use BSG in this crossover fic, for instance! But alas.
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Star Trek: more particularly TOS/TNG, and most particularly large parts of the "classic Pocket" novel period. Cheerful optimistic futures are good, and I approve. [It is not a coincidence that I've been on a re-reading jag involving a bunch of Diane Duane's Trekbooks.]
The Zeta Project: This was an animated series spun off from Batman Beyond (and therefore definitionally set in a future DCU, although the connections to primary DC continuity were pretty vague). Except it wasn't a superhero show at all. It was The Fugitive, only the fugitive was an android and his partner/mentor was a snarky teenage girl. Which meant that it was, wonder of wonders, a network animated cartoon series that was almost purely character-driven and up front about it.
The Mageworlds novels: A series of space operas written by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, beginning (in publication order) with The Price of the Stars. Think Star Wars for loose structure (there are Adepts, who are sort of but not exactly the Jedi, and Mages, who are a good deal more complex than the Sith). Think of a tone that's half pure swashbuckler/Saturday serial and half C.S. Lewis (in a good way). Note that among the leads are a couple of strong women who kick butt and take names. For my money, Best. Space. Opera. Books. Ever. And not excluding Bujold and Weber (both of whom I mostly like, too). Presently severely out of print but well worth tracking down.
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And I have never heard of those other two things! I am intrigued. :)
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You really do want to read the Duane Trekbooks; Rihannsu collects the first three-quarters of a linked series, but it's useful to go back further as well, because there are connections in The Wounded Sky and Spock's World that become important later, and her TNG novel, Dark Mirror, hints at a possible connection between the Trekverse and the Young Wizards universe. Also, Duane does highly entertaining nonhuman crew; who would have thought of recruiting a Horta for the Enterprise?
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Also, I love Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. There is science and politics and revolutions and ethnic diversity and landscape descriptions. They are awesome.
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Also, I saw somebody mention Neal Stephenson in comments. He can be very entertaining, but I find him vastly annoying, too, because what I've read of him really doesn't pass the Bechdel test. Like, one of the few women I remember is one whom the protagonist at first thinks sort of dismissively is probably a lesbian, but then she ends up having sex with him. And there's one woman whose only role is to finally put out to this mathematician guy, which somehow makes him smart enough to crack some code. It's a pity, because I could have really enjoyed Cryptonomicon otherwise--it's full of geekiness of the sort I enjoy. It's just that only the men get to be geeky, and only they get to be POV characters. (It doesn't help that I disagree with Stephenson's political opinions, either.)
Oops. I had no idea I needed to rant about Neal Stephenson, but apparently I did. I've only read one of his books, though, so I can't speak for all of them.
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Doctor Who (parts of it), Firefly, Dark Angel, the season finales of Dollhouse, Star Trek, Wall-E, Fray.