schneefink: Babylon 5 (Bab5)
I finally read "Children of Ruin", the sequel to "Children of Time," i.e. "spiders in space!", this time with more spiders in space, and more fascinating species. In fact book 2 is quite similar to book 1 but with everything turned up a notch or two, and I mean that in the most positive sense. (There's more horror too. I'm not a fan of horror because I tend to get nightmares. …I'll see how I sleep tonight.)

Spiders and more )

This is the best kind of science fiction :)
schneefink: (FF Kaylee excited)
Hi! Thank you very much for writing a story for me! :D

Things I like:
* I love friendship/team/found family fic. Characters who grow to like each other, trust each other, and eventually would do many things for each other, yes please. Especially when they're in slightly different positions/places/there are obstacles etc.
* Related to that, navigating relationships: how do they deal with daily life, how do they support and comfort each other at the end of the day, how do they solve conflicts, what happens if there are conflicting loyalties? I'm a big fan of loyalty, betrayal, (self-)sacrifice, and related tropes in general.
* Some other things I love: h/c, competent characters, hugs, plot, happy or at least optimistic endings, …

Things I don't like for Yuletide:
* Stories with a very dark or hopeless ending
* Explicit rape or abuse
* Character bashing
* Stories focusing on harlequin romance tropes or explicit sex
* Different world AUs, like coffeeshop AUs or Harry Potter fusions. I love the canon worlds of all these fandoms so I'd prefer to read fic taking place there. What-if AUs are cool.

Have fun! The prompts below are guidelines, I hope they help you think of ideas.

Spiderlight – Adrian Tchaikovsky )

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky )

The Bright Sessions (Podcast) )

Elemental Logic series – Laurie J. Marks )
schneefink: Babylon 5 (Bab5)
This book is a fantastic example of why I love Science Fiction: alien cultures, developments over loooong time spans, humans at the very edge and beyond their understanding and horizon. I loved it. It's half fascinating and never dry spider civilization worldbuilding and half about the last humans trying to survive in an ark ship; the way they mirrored and played off each other was great, but the contact moments were the best.

More details with spoilers )

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