SGA thematic list: alien cultures and new non-human aliens

[ratcreature]

This SGA thematic list concerning aliens is divided into two parts:

1. stories featuring (human) alien Pegasus cultures prominently somehow (including the cultures of Sateda and Athos, the Genii and other canonical peoples), preferably if the culture is explored, but if one of the culture's aspects works as a plot device in an unusual way that's okay too, as long as the aliens are visible as having a culture in their own right. This excludes the "aliens made them do it" genre (for which specialized thematic lists already exist anyway) unless the focus is very much the culture and its reasons to require visitors to engage in sexual relations, rather than a "there was a random, irrational fertility ritual *hand-wave*, so John and Rodney have sex" kind. This also excludes any story in which Pegasus aliens only make a token appearance.


2. stories with new non-human aliens, i.e. not stories featuring canonical non-humans like the Asgard, Ancients, or the Wraith, which I feel is a different theme.

These are not recs, but a thematic list. I'll link gen stories as well as all kinds of pairings, but at least initially it's biased towards pairings I read, e.g. I don't read John/Elizabeth so I'll need others to point out stories from those corners of fandom fitting the list criteria to me. I decided to list the stories with the authors' summaries (if available) rather than listing what kinds of aliens appear in order to avoid spoiling the stories.

If you want a story added, your own or others, please comment with the title, author, pairings (if any), summary, a public link (i.e. no f-locked or community member locked LJ entries and the like), whether it's a WIP, and under which topic it'll fit, so that I can list the story.

ETA (August 16, 2007): The thematic list is now located on a separate website for easier maintenance.

1. stories featuring alien cultures

2. stories with non-human aliens

Comments

[ratcreature]

Thanks for the suggestions. I mostly remember that as an "aliens made them do it" story, though. I don't recall ever learning anything about the puffballs except that they were a wacky plot device for sex, though it has been a long time since I read it. I didn't exclude AMTDI again under point two because it's not that common for non-human alien stories, but since there's fans who maintain specific AMTDI thematic lists already, I don't list that genre, unless there's more to the aliens. Do I remember the story wrong and the aliens are more than a sex-pollen device? Then I'll list it.

[debris_k.livejournal.com]

Hmm, good point. You know, upon re-reading, the aliens don't actually *make* them have sex. They kind of... mollest John and Rodney a bit. And afterwards, it's kinda unclear whether they have the frantic sex *because* of the aliens, or as an after-effect of being frottaged unconscious by said aliens' tendrils and the resulting sexual high.

So, basically, I can't help you decide either way. The side I'm looking at is "Aliens! Kooshball-like aliens! Glee!" and while there's a part of the story spent on theorizing on said aliens, the story itself isn't that long so I don't know if they count as a whole alien culture or something. They remain pretty much an alien mystery (floating, chocolate loving, hello-saying, John and Rodney -mollesting mystery, all in all) in the end, and as the guys jump into bed together and not blame it on the aliens, heck, I dunno.