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The Political Education of Kerr Avon
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| Title: | The Political Education of Kerr Avon |
| Author(s): | Nova |
| Date(s): | 2005 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Blake's 7 |
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The Political Education of Kerr Avon is a Blake's 7 Avon/Blake story by Nova.
It was published in Fire and Ice #8.
Reactions and Reviews
"The Political Education of Kerr Avon" by Nova is a twelve page story. There is a lot of conversation about serious matters for people who dislike PWP type stories. The story covers several years and past Gauda Prime. I found one part disturbingly shocking, but I won't spoil the plot. Nova has the ability to make things seem very real. I enjoyed the story although it was slow going reading it in places.[1]
Not sure if this was next - Nova was kind enough to send me the Word doc a few months ago so I didn't read in the zine library. It's a fantastic fic, though. Great dialogue, really upsetting middle portion and I love the ending. And the way she writes Avon in general, which I think is one of the finest in the fandom.[2]
Rich, clever, emotional Blake/Avon, exactly as you would expect from the author. Avon has a first person narrative, which is interspaced with third. Blake and Avon do talk politics, but more than that they talk about Blake and the kind of man he is - Avon gets some good sardonic quips in about that. A terrible and tragic thing happens in the middle - it's treated effectively and resolved into one of those classic Nova endings.[3]
Quite a typical Nova, but I liked political discussions. There was something there that was fixed too quickly/wasn't given as much attention as I would like.[4]
@locked-behind-the-walls Oh I get what you meant ‘solved too quickly’ (really, all solved in a year), in that case I much prefer what had been done in Fire and Rain (which only leaves readers a hopeful future if we couldn’t get more) it is like there are too many things need to be discussed ideologically. But I liked she tried, at least let them talk about it. But the issue is too simplified to my taste. But I am always here for her romantic approach (because I am a hopeless romantic) than world-building (like Outlaws and Inlaws which felt like queer movies talking about 19th century Britain to me for some unknown reasons- well, about the marrying bits) [5]
References
- ^ a 2005 review by Joyce Bowen at Judith Proctor's Blake's 7 site, Archived version
- ^ 2014 review by Aralias, Archived version
- ^ Katy and Molly's 77+ Favourite A/B and A-B Stories, Archived version, August 5, 2013
- ^ The comment by Ruina in the Gauda Prime Social Club Discord server, 23 June 2020, quoted with the author's permission
- ^ Review by hadescavedish, 23 June 2020