Silver Cloud, Dark Lining
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| Title: | Silver Cloud, Dark Lining |
| Publisher: | Skeeter Press |
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| Author(s): | KandaceK |
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| Date(s): | online 1999, print 2000 |
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| Fandom: | The Sentinel |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | online version |
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Silver Cloud, Dark Lining is a gen Sentinel novel by KandaceK.
A summary: That last mission to Peru rears its ugly head. Will Jim survive? Can his Guide help him?
"Novel Concepts"
The publisher, Skeeter Press, labeled this series of zines "Novel Concepts." This is a because each story had been previously net-published before being made into a print zine. A similar series is Best of the Net by AMC Press.
- Sirocco (#1)
- Masks (#2)
- Silver Cloud, Dark Lining (#3)
- Unsleeping (#4)
- Hijacked (#5)
Excerpt
"You failed to stop Lash, and I got kidnapped."
"Yes."
"You failed to stop Alex, and I got an almost permanent view of the bottom of a fountain."
"Yes."
"You failed to stop the sun from rising, and I got sunburned."
"Ye--" I stopped and stared at the grinning idiot. "The world's revolving around me again, right?" I asked sheepishly.
"How's the air out there in the cosmos, man?"
I shrugged. "I'm self-absorbed." Nothing new there.
"Yeah. That's why you run around trying to save the world."
"I like my possessions nice and ordered."
"So why are you fouling the air with this bullshit?"
Reactions and Reviews
A very good, wonderfully long, enticely complex story with lots of plot, mystery, and characterization. Kandace tells a tale of Jim and remnants from his last mission to Peru and just want repercussions it's having now. Since I have a weak spot for stories that have Jim going "camouflaged" or "Jungle Jim" as it's sometimes called, this story hit big with me in the last several acts. An excellent story with good research and background as its foundation.[1]
This was good. It's always good to read a well-researched story. Good to find out all that stuff. Blair's reaction to the "Green Berets" thing was amusing. Good build up of tension. This appears to be in a non-TSbyBS universe (or at least pre-TSbyBS). Which is fine with me! [2]
Just like Blair in this story, I've always felt that there was a big part of Jim Ellison's earlier life missing since we were never told details of the events leading up to Jim becoming stranded in Peru. Kandy remedies that lack by presenting us with a story set post-Alex in which a current murder case unburies Jim's repressed memories of the helicopter crash in which his entire team died. The story is well written, well researched, Jim gets to wear his uniform, and his teammates become more than a number when the reader encounters them as three-dimensional persons in Jim's flashbacks. The story's plot is structured believably, and due to the emphasis on the friendship between Jim and Blair, one hardly notices that this story is gen and not slash. [3]
References
- ^ Best of Sentinel Drama FanFiction on the Web
- ^ 2000 comments at Kat Space, accessed 16 July 2012
- ^ the sentinel fan fiction: recommendations by allaire mikháil, January 2012; reference link