Winterborne
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Winterborne |
| Author(s): | Beck |
| Date(s): | 1999 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | Highlander |
| External Links: | first part of many chapters is here |
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Winterborne is a Highlander story by Beck.
Reactions and Reviews
HL dystopia is a developing sub-genre in HL fic. I saw an advertisment for a dystopian HL novel on a fanzine site. We have seen the future of immortals and it's a nightmare. Well, it seems to me that any future in which the general public knows about immortals isn't likely to be pleasant. The only optimistic futures I have seen for immortals tend to be space-going crossover stories. Immortals can re-invent themselves and lead new lives in the vastness of space and continue to conceal what they are. Yet if immortals stay on Earth discovery seems inevitable. This dystopian scenario combines the terrors of plague (Kronos is apparently not the only avatar of Pestilence)with the public revelation of immortality. I will be interested in seeing how it turnsout....Recent developments have made Winterborne even more interesting than before. I like the fact that the immie who spread the Kronos Plague was fearful, not evil or interested in world domination like Kronos. I also like the changing and developing relationship between Methos and the Hunter Gytha. This is an intriguing novel so far.[1]
I've seen "Judgement Day" and "One Minute To Midnight" again the other day and was intrigued by the slow development of all-out-war in that two episodes, the description how the logic of war is taking over. That development was driven further in the alternative universe of TB/NTB. In "Winterborne", we see what may happen if it would be brought about not only by a few rogue Watchers or a father grieving for his killed son, but by scrupulous tendencies in government and an indifferent mankind. The beginnings of looming genocide brings on the genocide in an insane attempt to prevent it, and the main fault at the start is that he world - in this case, the majority of mortals - where about to let it happen; to let one group of intelligent beings be deprived of their human rights again. It's breathtaking. I'm also very interested about the question what we will discover about the Hunters.[2]
Great story - but it seemed to finish so quickly it was almost an anti-climax <g> [3]
References
- ^ June 1999, Shomeret at alt.tv.highlander.creative
- ^ June 1999, Helga at alt.tv.highlander.creative
- ^ June 1999, Jette at alt.tv.highlander.creative