true detective: you can see a million stars tonight but you can't get very far, by dancinguniverse

[ozqueen]

FANDOM: True Detective
FIC LINK: you can see a million stars tonight, but you can't get very far
AUTHOR LINK: dancinguniverse
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 1747
MAIN CHARACTERS: Rustin 'Rust' Cohle, Travis Cohle

FIC SUMMARY: Rust in Alaska.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is one of my favourite fics from Yuletide 2014 - it manages to build little details of Rust's past, as well as shaping his future in a really gentle, believable way. One of those fics that says an awful lot with very few words. Really beautifully done.

The West Wing: Relative Strengths, by RyoSen

[isabelquinn]

FANDOM: The West Wing
FIC LINK: Relative Strengths
AUTHOR LINK: RyoSen
RATING/WARNING(S): Not rated / No AO3 archive warnings apply / Spoilers through season 2
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete/4741
MAIN CHARACTERS: Josh Lyman, Zoey Bartlet

FIC SUMMARY: Zoey and Josh play Rate the Psychological Trauma.

RECCER'S NOTES: A really beautiful piece about a conversation between Josh and Zoey, sometime after the events of 2.10 Noel. The Josh voice is phenomenally good, and I can't get over how well RyoSen manages to write Sorkin-esque dialogue.

War of the Worlds / Dracula / Alice in Wonderland: Chances, by TheFierceBeast

[isabelquinn]

FANDOM: War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells / Dracula - Bram Stoker / Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
FIC LINK: Chances
AUTHOR LINK: TheFierceBeast
RATING/WARNING(S): General / No AO3 warnings apply
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete / 2118
MAIN CHARACTERS: Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker, Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Martians (War of the Worlds)

FIC SUMMARY:
Original prompt: 
The only characters I nominated are the Narrator and the Martians, but feel free to write about any of the others if you like. I'd love to read anything at all! The only thing I'll beg for is this: please don't "fix" the science with modern knowledge. Old sci-fi is so fascinating to me because yes they're some great stories but also because they're so firmly of their time, they're like glorious little time capsules of every stage of recent scientific discovery and imagination. I'd love to see something in keeping with Wells' era of more limited knowledge but limitless possibility.

Also - so much potential for amazing crossovers! How do Mina and Jonathan/Sherlock and Watson/grown up Alice or Jim Hawkins/Oscar Wilde(?!) fare with the Martians? If you want to write a crossover/fusion type thing I would be all over that. I'm familiar with a lot of Victorian literature, and plenty of modern stuff set around the same time, but even if I don't know your other fandom I'd still be interested in a crossover if there's something you want to write - I get sci-fi disaster fic AND a new fandom, double win :D

RECCER'S NOTES: This fic is amazzziiinnnggg <3 of the three books, the only one I haven't read is War of the Worlds, so I can't comment on that element of it, but I can say that the vocal and turns of phrase in Mina's journal entries felt exactly right, and the whole thing was such a joy to read. Alice's cameo was wonderful too, her little Alice-esque comments felt perfectly Alice without detracting from the seriousness of what's happening to them all. Loved it! <3