Witchery: A Tale of the Carbon Wars by Verlaine - Prosfic Rec!

[byslantedlight]

I've just re-read Witchery: A Tale of the Carbon Wars by Verlaine, and remembered how much I loved it first time around! Science Fiction AU Prosfic! Wheee! What a fab world Verlaine has built, and just see our lads, with Cowley and especially with each other! They're just so our lads, and... just... awwwww!

I want more of this world! Pleeeeease?!

Has anyone else read it? Did anyone else love it?

Comments

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Yes, I read it. Yes, I loved it. Yes, Verlaine should write Pros (and S&H) each and every day for us. It was an amazing story. Inventive, different, wonderful. I highly recommend it.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay! *vbg* And yes she should!

[towerbridge2006.livejournal.com]

I must give this a try. Thanks for the rec. :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hope you like it!

[towerbridge2006.livejournal.com]

I did! The futuristic setting is quite disturbing.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I love post-apocalyptic fic/tion - it's possibly my "favourite" genre of all - child of the '80s, me. *g*

[smirra.livejournal.com]

I've just printed that one out and look forward to read it. I like the SF Pros AU's. Also love Suitable Gravity and The Cook and the Warehouseman.
And I like Verlaine's writing.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I love Pros SF AUs too - and you've named my two very favourites, right there!

[probodie.livejournal.com]

Well! I wasnt expecting that ending!!! A tad too much het-ish, really (even though it is slash), for my tastes, but an enjoyable story - a very different story.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - well, it was from a woman's pov, so I suppose it was bound to come over as a bit het-y - but it's absolutely totally focussed on the slash really, even she knows that it is, so I don't mind that kind of "het" at all! Glad you thought it was enjoyable apart from that though! And yes! It was different! Refreshing! *g*

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Read it, beta'd it, loved it.*g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

*sighs happily*

[greengerbil.livejournal.com]

I read it when Verlaine first posted it, and purely coincidentally, readi it again last week. I really enjoyed it (says the 'I don't really like AU's much' Pros fan!)

I especially liked the way she established that whole world with just a few odd sentences here and there - and her descriptions of Cowley and the boys was just.... I could see the three of them, coming up that path to her front door. *sigh*

I'm not sure about another story set in that world - this one is so complete in and of itself, and the identity of the narrator is a part of that... hmm.

If Verlaine had another idea which she felt would work in that world, though, I'd say yes - I too would love to have more of this world.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yes, I could totally see the three of them walking up the path too!

I think the fact that she did such a great job with the world is why I'd like to see more stories set there - there's oceans of room to write more about the lads as she's written them, because she's written them - the world almost doesn't matter, but it adds to it all because it's so intriguing...

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

Yes I remember it. And it needs definitively a re-read!
At that time I wasn't yet the biggest fan of AU... :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeay, another one converted over! *g* It took me ages to get into the idea of reading AU stories, but when I did I fell in a big way... It's a real skill, I think, to transfer the characters of B/D properly to another time/place...

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

I am goong to read it...soonish! :D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh you must, and it's not long! *g* (Not heard back about my request, btw...)

[scherwood]

Ta, for the rec! :D

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! *g*

[blkandwhtcat.livejournal.com]

It was interesting, and rather clever, but I definitely didn't want more - for me it was pretty much complete as is.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that story as it is, but I'd like to read more about that B/D/C and the post-apocalyptic world that they're in. 'course that might partly be because post-apocalyptic is one of my favourite genres in any kind of writing, and I do like it in Pros... *g* There's a thing for the lads to cope with!

[blkandwhtcat.livejournal.com]

Honestly, if you haven't read Manna Francis's The Administration Series (it's still on line), you MUST do so immediately. Like, TODAY.

Seriously.

http://www.mannazone.org/zone/admin/index.html

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh that's seriously spooky - I'd never heard of The Administration series, and you're the second person in less than a week to mention it to me!

Cheers - I've bookmarked it all ready for a good session! *g*