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Title: Sheppard's Law
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: John/Rodney
Categories: angst, drama
Length: long (~35,000)
Warnings: possible character deaths
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cesperanza
Website: Speranza's Fiction
Author's Summary: This is the story of...John Sheppard's whole life, and it takes about forty years to tell.
Review:
A sort of SGA version of The Time Traveler's Wife" minus the novel's main plot plus Schrödinger's cat, where Rodney travels in time to save John from dying, repeatedly.
I wish I could say "I love everything she wrote", but Speranza's stories are a bit of a hit-or-miss for me. Written by the Victors remains one of my favourite SGA stories of all times, yet I still have not been able to finish OK Computer.
One thing I really love about Speranza's writing is her almost picturesque style of storytelling, and this story is no different -- events in the story travel through your mind with such vivid colours and you can almost see, hear, and feel the characters right in front of you. While Sheppard's Law is no fluff fest, and Rodney and John's story is a little heart-breaking, everything ends well. Recommended for those with a penchant for stories with a well-written plot and serious themes.
Sheppard's Law
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Fandom: SGA
Pairing: John/Rodney
Categories: angst, drama
Length: long (~35,000)
Warnings: possible character deaths
Author on LJ:
cesperanzaWebsite: Speranza's Fiction
Author's Summary: This is the story of...John Sheppard's whole life, and it takes about forty years to tell.
Review:
A sort of SGA version of The Time Traveler's Wife" minus the novel's main plot plus Schrödinger's cat, where Rodney travels in time to save John from dying, repeatedly.
I wish I could say "I love everything she wrote", but Speranza's stories are a bit of a hit-or-miss for me. Written by the Victors remains one of my favourite SGA stories of all times, yet I still have not been able to finish OK Computer.
One thing I really love about Speranza's writing is her almost picturesque style of storytelling, and this story is no different -- events in the story travel through your mind with such vivid colours and you can almost see, hear, and feel the characters right in front of you. While Sheppard's Law is no fluff fest, and Rodney and John's story is a little heart-breaking, everything ends well. Recommended for those with a penchant for stories with a well-written plot and serious themes.
Sheppard's Law
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Question - how do you do a word-count? I find that info so useful in deciding when I'll read a story that I note it as part of the title when I save fic to my HD. Yay for the authors who include that in their index.
But I tracked down Speranza's home page and, while she lists size in Kb, she doesn't list word-count. So, how do you do it - is there a program or page that will calculate it automatically?
(I've considered doing a quick copy-paste to Word, and using Word's internal function, but... so much work!)
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You can get a general idea of the word count by looking at the file size if it's coded in simple html without anything fancy (fancy stuff kind of "inflates" the file size), but that's not accurate at all if there is fancy coding.
So, yeah I would probably put it on my 'worth a read' list, at least.