Claire Gabriel's Quartet Plus Two on AO3
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cgabriel's collection of TOS short stories, Quartet Plus Two, posted to AO3.
The work isn't a standalone novel, as the single chaptered posting might suggest, but rather a collection of separate stories, backstories, and side stories about Sarek, Amanda, Spock, and Kirk, with significant appearances by others (including an alien OC whom I'd love to see again). The last story in the collection is "The Thousandth Man," which was published in Star Trek: The New Voyages--in substantially different form--as "Ni Var."
As I said in my comment on AO3, I hope that eventually Claire's other two TOS works--"Home Before Home" and "The Porcelain of Twilight," both of which are set in the Simple Gifts universe--will also be made available.
Claire's writing is outstanding on every level.
The work isn't a standalone novel, as the single chaptered posting might suggest, but rather a collection of separate stories, backstories, and side stories about Sarek, Amanda, Spock, and Kirk, with significant appearances by others (including an alien OC whom I'd love to see again). The last story in the collection is "The Thousandth Man," which was published in Star Trek: The New Voyages--in substantially different form--as "Ni Var."
As I said in my comment on AO3, I hope that eventually Claire's other two TOS works--"Home Before Home" and "The Porcelain of Twilight," both of which are set in the Simple Gifts universe--will also be made available.
Claire's writing is outstanding on every level.
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Date: 2023-12-17 03:33 am (UTC)I'll add your AO3 stories to my to-be-read list.
By the time I had assumed control of Mom's AO3 account and sent myself an invitation, two or three months ago, the username scarfman was already taken so I'm pgadzikowski there. I'm slowly posting there some of my Usenet-era material, but none of the crossovers, because my current ongoing project the webcomic The Hero of Three Faces employs an entirely different crossover paradigm and continuity and I don't want to confuse readers. However 1) The Legacy of Kirk isn't a crossover 2) all my Usenet-era work has always remained archived at my personal website of the time, now at https://scarfman.iglouhost.com/ after a server rename a few years ago. You can find Legacy on the old site but, having the idea from your request, I'll probably have it up at AO3 with the other material I was already importing before 2023 is out.