gensplosion | Entries tagged with - fandom: sapphire and steel

FANDOM: Sapphire and Steel, Are You Being Served?
FIC LINK: A Very Hard Sale
AUTHOR LINK:

Tish
RATING/WARNING(S): General audiences.
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 522 | Complete.
MAIN CHARACTERS: Sapphire, Steel, Mr Humpries.

FIC SUMMARY: There's something decidedly odd about the Grace Bros. Ladies and Gents' clothing department. Sapphire and Steel investigate.

RECCER'S NOTES: Lols all round. In this fic Steel meets something more deadly than time, but this is to be expected in the world of a 1970s sitcom....

liadt

FANDOM: Sapphire and Steel, Robin of Sherwood
FIC LINK: The Guardian by the Lake
AUTHOR LINK:

Annariel
RATING/WARNING(S): General Audiences
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 1942 | Complete
MAIN CHARACTERS: Marion of Leaford, Robin of Loxley, Sapphire, Steel.
FIC SUMMARY: Sapphire and Steel find themselves on a mysterious island in a lake, during the time of Robin Hood.

RECCER'S NOTES: This was written for me, but I requested the two fandoms separately.

The two fandoms have a sort of mystical nature and fit together very well. The tale is told from Sapphire and Steel’s point of view and how they handle both a legend, Robin Hood, and an adversary who follows the rules of a fairy tale but doesn’t come from myth. The fic manages to feel like it equally belongs to either fandom and one that could be understood by a reader ignorant of the other.

liadt

FANDOM: Sapphire and Steel
FIC LINK: Technical Difficulties
AUTHOR LINK:

spikesgirl58
RATING/WARNING(S): General Audiences.
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 1844|Complete
MAIN CHARACTERS: Female OC, Sapphire, Steel.

FIC SUMMARY: It's only a record. What harm could come from a record?

RECCER'S NOTES:FANDOM: A short but effective fic. Like many Sapphire and Steel fics this isn’t a fic to jolly up the day. The main character buys a record of the last voyage of a torpedoed ship and faces consequences and emotions she never expected to face.

thisbluespirit

FANDOM: Sapphire and Steel
FIC LINK: Lieder ohne Worte
AUTHOR LINK:

eponymous_rose
RATING/WARNING(S): G | None
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 1365
MAIN CHARACTERS: Sapphire, Steel

FIC SUMMARY: He and she and an abandoned music hall: a solitary performer plays for an empty audience, keeping Time.

RECCER'S NOTES: It’s gorgeously written and haunting, with so much going on in each small phrase. It captures not only the complementary natures of Sapphire and Steel but also that fascinating feel of the canon, of viewing human life from the outside. Just beautiful.

thisbluespirit

FANDOM: Sapphire and Steel
FIC LINK: Daisy Bell
AUTHOR LINK:

usernamegoeshere
RATING/WARNING(S): Teen | Canon-typical horror, ghosts, death
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 32,278 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Sapphire, Steel, Silver, Diamond, Radium, Original Characters

FIC SUMMARY: In 1979, Sapphire and Steel arrive at the Howard Street Hospital to investigate a time break. They have a chance encounter with the receptionist, Daisy. In 1999, Diamond, Radium, and Silver arrive at the Howard Street Hospital to investigate a time break. They have a chance encounter with the receptionist, Daisy.

RECCER'S NOTES: Sapphire and Steel is the most beautifully weird TV show I have ever encountered (as one TV guidebook described it: “There are many ways of holding a TV audience... Total lack of explanation is not supposed to be one of them.”) and also one of the most interesting fandoms for fic, as authors each try in their own way to interpret those mysteries and transpose that sense of otherness in the mundane to their writing, and nobody does it quite the same way, so I’m hoping to rec some more S&S before I’m done here.

Anyway, this fic one of the best examples - it’s marvellous, long, plotty, completely true to canon-weirdness (if you can say such a thing) and sharply characterised, with every bit of Sapphire-Steel-Silver interaction a delight. Plus – always a huge bonus for me – not only does it include Silver but it brings in some additional ‘operators’ from the opening credits, and explores just how strange they might be. And if you don’t know the series, but you like exploring the weirdness of time or enjoy ghost stories, why not give it a try? It’s a glorious fic and you really won’t know any less than those of us who have watched the canon, honest…

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Entries tagged with - fandom: sapphire and steel

Sapphire & Steel; Are You Being Served: A Very Hard Sale by Tish

Robin of Sherwood/Sapphire & Steel: The Guardian by the Lake by Annariel

Sapphire & Steel: Technical Difficulties by spikesgirl58

Sapphire & Steel: Lieder ohne Worte by eponymous_rose

Sapphire & Steel: Daisy Bell by nemo_the_everbeing

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