Matter, Form, and Privation
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Matter, Form, and Privation |
| Author(s): | Domenika Marzione (miss_porcupine) |
| Date(s): | Completed 21 August 2006 |
| Length: | ~25,000 words |
| Genre(s): | gen |
| Fandom(s): | Stargate Atlantis |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | online here |
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Matter, Form, and Privation is a Stargate Atlantis story by Domenika Marzione. It features fanart by Anna Luna.
Reactions and Reviews
This story is a brilliant exploration of the way in which evil usually wears an all-too-human face; one that it isn't easy to dismiss as something we'd never do ourselves. It's about the effective and terrible ways in which the Wraith go about making humans their unwilling allies, and Domenika has done an incredible job of making this topic accessible, creating a wonderful original character, and slowly revealing the ethical dilemma at the heart of her story. Reading this made me ache with getting it in a way no empty political rhetoric ever could. What a great read![1]
The One That Could Easily Replace Three Full Units of Psych 101. Although, in All Honesty, That Might Be Harder on the Students Than Just Reading about the Milgram Experiments Again. Matter, Form, and Privation, by Domenika Marzione, aka miss_porcupine. Stargate: Atlantis, gen.
I've been waiting a long time to recommend this one, because I wanted to do it justice. I wanted to tell you how beautiful it was, how perfect, how utterly inevitable, how necessary.
But I've come to the conclusion that I'll never write well enough to do that, to explain to you why you should read this story. I'll never write well enough to do give it the summary it deserves. So instead I will just say - read this. Read it even if you don't read SGA. Read it even if you think original female characters are a sure sign of bad fan fiction. (And if you can read this (and my other surefire disproof of that faulty theorem) and still say that, well, you may wish to check your ability to read English.) Read it even if you think, from this recommendation, that it sounds depressing.
Yeah, okay, it is depressing. But it's also a story that I wish could be canon, that I wish the SGA writers had the balls to write, because this is what life in Pegasus must actually be like. (And for me, that provides a whole key to understanding Teyla and Ronon, and how they must view the people from earth - So lucky! So innocent! So very much in need of protection! - but that's a whole other essay that I am quite sure you don't want to read, so I will stop this summary. here and spare you. No, really, no need for thanks - the look of silent wonder on your shining faces is enough).[2]
References
- ^ rec by cupidsbow, Matter, Form, and Privation by Domenika Marzione (R) at Crack Van, 18 January 2007.
- ^ rec by thefourthvine, [1], 20 February 2007.