SGA rec

[ratcreature]

I just read Hail Mary by zaganthi and perryvic (ca. 13,450 words), a futurefic with some really cool ideas about Atlantis and Ancient tech. It is McKay/Sheppard slash, but really mostly about John/Atlantis.

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[ratcreature]

Heh. Is there any particular reason why you're reading about comics even though you don't even like to read them?

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

well, as i said, i'm fixing to teach Maus, but in general, i feel like this is a huge gap in my fannish Allgemeinbildung *bg*

[ratcreature]

Well, you had a typo i.e. "mauds" and no capitalization so I actually didn't make the connection to the comic from what you wrote earlier.

But that's funny since I know someone who did their dissertation on Maus. Unfortunately whenever the guy talked about his research at comic conventions he completely missed the target audience (which were fanboys) with all the academic speak.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

oops, sorry...

my mind and my fingers seem to be lazy today...

yes, i can very much see that scenario!!!

[ratcreature]

In case you're more interested in "comics theory meets holocaust studies" than the fanboys, you can make your way through all 300 pages of it, as it recently came out as a book (I haven't read the thing though, so it's not a rec. *g*):
http://www.bol.de/shop/home/artikeldetails/genealogie_des_holocaust/ole_frahm/ISBN3-7705-4145-6/ID6656420.html

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

oh wow, very cool...thank you! (though i doubt i'll get it in time for my class)

i love my flist's collective intelligence!!!!