Looking Glass Universe
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| The Professionals Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Looking Glass World 'verse |
| Author(s): | Felicity M Parkinson |
| Date(s): | 1982 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | AU |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | Looking Glass World at the Circuit Archive |
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Looking Glass World is a Professionals slash story written by Felicity M. Parkinson which appeared as a paper circuit story in the 1980s.
The story sometimes appears on fans' Desert Island lists.[1] The story is part of an series of stories. It is followed by And Memories Die, Part I appeared in the zine Walking in the Moonlight and Part II appeared in Other Times and Places #1 both written by Ellis Ward.
Looking Glass Universe
Background
At the time the stories were written, many of the paper circuit stories contained no author name, so when Ellis Ward wrote her 'sequel' to Felicity M. Parkinson's Looking Glass World, she had no idea who to contact to obtain permission. In the 1990s Ellis Ward explained that her two stories were not sequels per se, but more "inspired by" Looking Glass World. The original story by Felicity M Parkinson was a take on the Star Trek Mirror universe where the characters are unpleasant (as in the Star Trek Mirror 'verse) and gay (not in the original Star Trek Mirror 'verse.) In "And Memories Die I" Ellis wanted to explore what Doyle might experience when he finally remembered what he had done (and what had been done to him) in the mirror universe. In "And Memories Die II" she wondered might happen if the Mirror characters were to once again come into contact with 'our' Bodie and Doyle. Ellis later explained in a letterzine that Felicity M Parkinson was not pleased with the sequels as she (a) had not given permission and (b) would not have taken them in the direction that Ellis had chosen. In her letter, Ellis explained that as far as she was concerned Felicity M Parkinson's "is the only "authorized" version and should Parkinson ever write a sequel, it would be the "official" sequel. Ellis also apologized for failing to obtain permission.[2]
References
- ^ Desert Island fics post at ci5hq dated April 14, 2007; reference link.
- ^ Source: Morgan Dawn's personal notes, accessed June 6, 2013.