Fic: Semper Fi with a Zat
Jul. 16th, 2014 09:18 pmTitle: Semper Fi with a Zat: Chasing Wraith and Killing Time with the Marines of Atlantis
Rating: G
Character: Ensemble, OCs
Disclaimer: Not mine (except the mistakes, although some of those may have been gleaned from Wiki-P, because I don't know nothing about firearms), no harm meant.
Summary: To mark the 10th anniversary of the declassification of the Stargate program, we bring you extracts from Ed Lawrence's 2014 New York Times bestseller Semper Fi with a Zat: Chasing Wraith and Killing Time with the Marines of Atlantis, originally posted on HuffPo in 2012-3 as 'Despatches from Pegasus', when Lawrence was embedded with the Atlantis expedition. We republish here Lawrence's introduction to the recent anniversary edition.
A/N: ...I wrote the bulk of this in 2009. It was intended as the introduction to a Big Bang story that I'm still trying to write, and which has ended up going in a slightly different direction. The Ed Lawrence who wrote this is not the same Ed Lawrence who I've sent to Atlantis in Despatches from Pegasus, and I'm still working out how much of that is due to what happens, or if it's not quite the same story...
I'm posting this now, because damned if I'm gonna let the tenth anniversary of the show that brought me into fandom pass without posting something.
( Semper Fi with a Zat: Chasing Wraith and Killing Time with the Marines of Atlantis )
~~~
Good Lord, has it really been ten years? Although I didn't start watching SGA until it was into its fourth year, so for me it hasn't...
Rating: G
Character: Ensemble, OCs
Disclaimer: Not mine (except the mistakes, although some of those may have been gleaned from Wiki-P, because I don't know nothing about firearms), no harm meant.
Summary: To mark the 10th anniversary of the declassification of the Stargate program, we bring you extracts from Ed Lawrence's 2014 New York Times bestseller Semper Fi with a Zat: Chasing Wraith and Killing Time with the Marines of Atlantis, originally posted on HuffPo in 2012-3 as 'Despatches from Pegasus', when Lawrence was embedded with the Atlantis expedition. We republish here Lawrence's introduction to the recent anniversary edition.
A/N: ...I wrote the bulk of this in 2009. It was intended as the introduction to a Big Bang story that I'm still trying to write, and which has ended up going in a slightly different direction. The Ed Lawrence who wrote this is not the same Ed Lawrence who I've sent to Atlantis in Despatches from Pegasus, and I'm still working out how much of that is due to what happens, or if it's not quite the same story...
I'm posting this now, because damned if I'm gonna let the tenth anniversary of the show that brought me into fandom pass without posting something.
( Semper Fi with a Zat: Chasing Wraith and Killing Time with the Marines of Atlantis )
~~~
Good Lord, has it really been ten years? Although I didn't start watching SGA until it was into its fourth year, so for me it hasn't...