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Friday, November 25 To all Americans: Happy Turkey Day. Have a Matrix fanfic! Something to note in passing: Sony seems to have definitely breached the LGPL license for a subcomponent of their XCP copy protection, by licensing software which rips off entire portions of opensource code without releasing their own subsequent source code (as mandated by the LGPL) or disclosing and crediting the original authors - in this case, the Lame MP3 codec authors). Clever. Oh, and their insidious installation method for their anti-piracy rootkit, combined with an enormous PR disaster... They're now recalling over two million CDs. D'oh. Ok. The 24th is just about over and done with now for the Americans, so Happy Thanksgiving and all that (if you log onto the Earthcam site, too lazy to URL it up, just Google) you can watch timelapse highlights of the New York Thanksgiving Day Parade, which is dead cool). it's already Friday in the UK, and fortunately as there's someone from the US staying in these University halls (I'm at University at the moment, in case you didn't realise), she's organised a Thanksgiving meal on Sunday. How awesome is that. Anyway, over various periods of time during the past few days, I've been reading this incredible work of fan fiction by one of the StarDestroyer.net resident fanfic authors, called Stravo... He started the piece something like two years ago, or thereabouts, and he only just published its final chapter in April this year! My suggestion is that you GO READ: Stravo - Cain And Abel (incredible Matrix / Terminator crossover fanfic) The work is (a paltry!) 25 chapters long, but please don't let that put you off - it's an incredible blend of Terminator vs. Matrix standards, it follows the Matrix story through but neatly follows its own version of events after the end of the Matrix Reloaded timeline (the second film). It has many things in keeping with the original films, but think of it like this: it's how I would have liked Matrix 3 to have been, if you could take Sci Fi films and effortlessly blend them (like mixing wall paint) to produce your ultimate movie script... It reads so well, Stravo is an excellent wordsmith and produces wholly believable setups, characters, situations, developments (you can really visualise the fight scenes in your mind, the descriptions are so incredibly detailed and finessed it's fantastic). There are of course, many other incredible Matrix-inspired fanfics 'out there', but I felt that I had to indicate this one as meritorious enough to get praise from ME, the most ardent, hardened sci fi fan, who enjoys films as the Directors intended and generally doesn't enjoy reading fanfics that much. What I also enjoy is reading the comments posted by the other forum members as the (then) new chapters of the story were published, at times you get really lively debates going on as to where the story could possibly go next - with the author fielding criticisms of his story and taking those onboard to further improve the quality of the writing! Excellent. Also of note: Stravo has written three or four other hugely-detailed fanfics, all available on the same forum (bbs.stardestroyer.net) In case you're not convinced to read it, here's a small teaser from Chapter 9 (I tried to pick a section which, if you read it and then proceeed to read the entire thing, won't influence prior knowledge of the storyline too adversely): TX walked in after her master and waited patiently as he examined one of the spheres. OOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo! :D Technorati tags: Matrix fan fiction Cain And Abel Stravo Thanksgiving Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 11/25/2005 07:28:00 AM. Roughly. Blog ID: 113290471507697403· | Permalink |
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