Decoy (Blake's 7 story)

Fanfiction
Title:	Decoy
Author(s):	Sheila Paulson
Date(s):	1988
Length:
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Fandom:	Blake's 7
External Links:	Online at AO3
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Decoy is a Blake's 7 story by Sheila Paulson.

It is part of her Jabberwocky series.

Publication History

It was published in Something... Unfriendly #1, Jabberwocky Collected, and Jabberwocky #2.

Author's Summary

When the crew of Jabberwocky learns that IMIPAK is being taken to a remote world, they hesitate about going after it. The mission is complicated by a potential sleeper agent on board the ship.

Reactions and Reviews

[Decoy, reviewed by Aralias]: This is OK, but not my favourite one so far (I suspect partly because it has so little B-A. It also interestingly has almost no B/J stuff, even though we know that they have slept together by now. I think there's one reference in Cally's POV about her suspecting that B and J are together. But that's it.

Plenty of nice ideas, although the 'can we trust anyone???' bit just went on for a bit too long. I guess I'm just not that into it as a plot device. Bringing back IMIPAK was a very good idea, though, (particularly since it now only affects our two leads), and I really like that Soolin feels she's bonded with Blake - although I would have liked more of that (see above).

When Tarrant went into shock I think I literally thought 'oh no, not again - how many people will Avon have to heal??' but then the narrative got around it, so that was OK.