Death Dogs Tourist Guide to Magnificent 7 Fan Fiction
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| Name: | Death Dogs Tourist Guide to Magnificent 7 Fan Fiction |
| Reccer(s): | Death Dogs |
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| Fandom: | The Magnificent Seven |
| URL: | http://deathdogs.net/mag7.html |
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Death Dogs Tourist Guide to Magnificent 7 Fan Fiction is a recommendation site for Magnificent Seven fanfiction. The site hosts recs for some of the best fic in the fandom. While it also misses some of the best fic because of their stated biases, it's a great resource, and a great place to start if you're new to the fandom and want good fiction recs.
It also hosted the 2004 Death Dogs Awards for Canon Storytelling.
Story criteria for recommendations are listed on the main page of the site:
In choosing the stories to list here, we're looking for fan fic that appeals to readers like ourselves and our friends. If the criteria below doesn’t describe the types of stories you like, this site isn’t for you. Although we’ve tried to list an extensive selection of excellent Magnificent 7 fan fiction, we don’t take ourselves too seriously and you shouldn’t either. We know there are writers who produce well crafted stories that don't meet our criteria because of differences in taste rather than lack of writing ability. A lot of authors like to experiment with characterization. Just because they take it beyond what we're looking for, doesn't mean it isn't good writing. . (See "Our Rules & the Exceptions that Prove Them" & "Mixed/Mixed-Up Feelings about Slash" & Characterization, Canon & Fanon.) If all the stories we've read in our search were graded from 1 to 10, the gen and het stories included here would range from 8 to 10 (in our opinion). Because of our mixed feelings about slash, only slash stories we rated at 9 to 10 are listed. The same restriction applies to stories about the childhoods of any of the seven. [How's that for confusion - higher standards for both slash and childhood stories.] Novellas/Series are also held to the higher standard. Reading them takes such a chunk out of a reader's life, it should be an especially worthwhile experience.
Our most fundamental criteria is that the story flows from a heroic, action background - Old West Peacekeepers, ATF Agents, Private Detectives, Soldiers of Fortune, Police Officers, Space Adventurers, etc. While the story list includes PWP's, comedies, character studies, relationship stories, etc. they're generally set within an action universe and are about heroic characters. The stories are cross-indexed by main characters and story type.
No matter how well written, we don't consider stories in non-heroic AU's or that deviate too greatly from canon characterization to be Magnificent 7 fan fic. We feel the same way about the "kiddie AU's" which reduce the Magnificent 7 to six, five or four raising one or more of the others as children. However, there are a few stories that several or all of us liked so well on general writing merit that we added an auxiliary category that contains a very limited number of kidfic titles.