Five Things That Aren't True.

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Fanfiction
Title: Five Things That Aren't True.
Author(s): Basingstoke
Date(s): 21 January 2002
Length: 12 K
Genre(s): slash fanfiction
Fandom(s): Smallville
Relationship(s):
External Links: Five Things That Aren't True. (Basingstoke's Stories)
Five Things That Aren't True. (Smallville Slash Archive)
Five Things That Aren't True (AO3)

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Five Things That Aren't True. is a Clark/Lex story by Basingstoke. The story popularized the Five Things trope.

Summary: Five linked stories. One is a crossover with Brimstone.

Recs and Reviews

Five Things That Aren't True by Basingstoke - You know, if I even try to describe this, it will lose something in the translation. Clark, Lex, the devil and Bruce Wayne. Yeah. You'll just have to read it.[1]

Years ago, Larry Niven wrote a famous piece called "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex". It's fun to read, but I never bought into the logic of it.

Nevertheless, Basingstoke's first section here is the most chilling extrapolation of that thesis I've ever come across.

Superb characterization, superb thinking in all parts of this story. Basingstoke is one of the authors who make me think not only, "I wish I'd written that," but also, "I wish I could have written that."[2]

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