Five Things That Aren't True.
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| Fanfiction | |
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| 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]
References
- ^ Destina Fortunato. Worlds Without Boundaries: Slash Story Recommendations - Smallville and Lord of the Rings. (Accessed 31 March 2021)
- ^ "Recommendations of Smallville Slash Stories". Archived from the original on 2023-10-08.