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May. 14th, 2004 06:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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officialgaiman or Neil Gaiman's blog at neilgaiman.com (and there are probably all of three of you), this is a very very important link:
A Study in Emerald.
Yup, that's his story from Shadows Over Baker Street, a book of short story Lovecraft-Holmes crossovers. (Discussion of that book inspired![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mlechan to begin to write her first fanfiction ever -- Holmes/Cthulhu eldritch tentacle pr0n.) And the story's been nominated for a Hugo -- that's why it's online, along with all the other nominated short stories, novellas, and novellettes. A really, really powerful story, and I think my favorite of the selections, although of course I read the book in the bookstore and that was a while ago so I might have forgotten something.
If you've got a moment, you should go read it. Even if you don't know anything about the Lovecraft universe.
(ETA the total random note that it's 55 degrees outside and foggy and overcast -- the exact same weather as in the East Bay right now. It'll get horrible by mid-day, of course, but right now it looks and feels like the Bay Area. When I walked down the hill this morning, the sun was muted and the trees across the way were obscured by the mist over the river. *happy sigh*)
(Edited again to add: there are a few characters in Gaiman's story who are never identified by name, just by obscure reference to canon. You can certainly read the story and still not care who they are -- I mean, it's no big deal. But if you do care, leave me a comment and I'll tell you who they are and how we're supposed to know. In nice white text, even, so's not to spoil it for anyone else. Although I can't imagine it being a spoiler. But some people are really anti-spoiler.)
officialgaiman or Neil Gaiman's blog at neilgaiman.com (and there are probably all of three of you), this is a very very important link:A Study in Emerald.
Yup, that's his story from Shadows Over Baker Street, a book of short story Lovecraft-Holmes crossovers. (Discussion of that book inspired
mlechan to begin to write her first fanfiction ever -- Holmes/Cthulhu eldritch tentacle pr0n.) And the story's been nominated for a Hugo -- that's why it's online, along with all the other nominated short stories, novellas, and novellettes. A really, really powerful story, and I think my favorite of the selections, although of course I read the book in the bookstore and that was a while ago so I might have forgotten something.If you've got a moment, you should go read it. Even if you don't know anything about the Lovecraft universe.
(ETA the total random note that it's 55 degrees outside and foggy and overcast -- the exact same weather as in the East Bay right now. It'll get horrible by mid-day, of course, but right now it looks and feels like the Bay Area. When I walked down the hill this morning, the sun was muted and the trees across the way were obscured by the mist over the river. *happy sigh*)
(Edited again to add: there are a few characters in Gaiman's story who are never identified by name, just by obscure reference to canon. You can certainly read the story and still not care who they are -- I mean, it's no big deal. But if you do care, leave me a comment and I'll tell you who they are and how we're supposed to know. In nice white text, even, so's not to spoil it for anyone else. Although I can't imagine it being a spoiler. But some people are really anti-spoiler.)
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Date: 2004-05-14 06:29 am (UTC)it's still foggy and cool at 9:24. i am very pleased. very pleased indeed. ^_^
(p.s. did you notice the extremely *cough* subtle political commentary in panel 2 of
rob: "didn't you ever consider how you were going to get out of
iraqthe air vent?"bucky (defensively): "i had it under control!"
satchel (solemnly): "no exit strategy."
heh. go darby! ^_^.)
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Date: 2004-05-14 06:34 am (UTC)And I'm glad it's still fabulous out, although the weather report threatens 83 degrees. Still, possible thunderstorms! That would keep the day cool.
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Date: 2004-05-14 07:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-16 07:41 pm (UTC)so good... So good!! SO GOOD!
Man. Now my little Holmes/Cthulhu story is even less likely to see the light of day, as it can't even begin to hold a candle to that. I love that he wrote it in the style of a British serial. I adore that man.