FIC: Electric Blue

[biichan.livejournal.com]

Hello! It's good to be reccing again. After noticing that three of the fics I was hoping to rec this week were crossovers and/or fusions, I decided I would do a Crossover Week here at Calufrax.

Story: Electric Blue
Author: Philomytha
Rating: All Ages
Word Count: 8222
Author's summary: Crossover with Bujold's Vorkosigan series. Amy had asked to visit a planet with lots of horses. She hadn't asked to get mixed up in Emperor Gregor's problems.
Characters/Pairings: Amy Pond/Rory Williams, Eleventh Doctor, Miles Vorkosigan, Ivan Vorpatril, Simon Illyan, Alys Vorpatril, Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan, River Song, Gregor Vorbarra
Warnings: Crossover with Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga. (Take place between The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game.)

Recced because: First of all, a confession: I am a repeat offender when it comes to bugging writers to post to Teaspoon in order to rec them later in Calufrax. However, I feel no guilt for this. Some fics are so awesome they need to be shared with the whole wide world and since Calufrax is where I rec things to Teaspoon they must go.

Beyond this, I spent most of August having my brain eaten by the Vorkosigan Saga. It wasn't something I planned on, since I'd tried reading them once before and had stalled about ten pages in to the first book with Miles. But midnightlurker got me to promise to try the very first Vorkosigan book, which is about Mile's mother and that one hooked me good and proper. So as a new convert of course I went out looking for fanfic.

And found this one, which combines my shiny new fandom and my one true fandom very nicely. Characterization is impeccable on all levels and the plot is nothing if not engrossing. Also, it has what I like to think of as the hallmark of a really good crossover: the ability to be read by someone who only knows one of the fandoms concerned and still be an enjoyable fic. Of course, if you are familiar with both Who and Bujold then the enjoyment is trebled. I mean, the Doctor faces off against Simon Illyan at the height of his powers! If you don't know how awesome a thing that is, then trust me: it's awesome.

Comments

[philomytha.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! New Vorkosigan converts are always great! Some people don't take to Miles at first, but they do take to Cordelia, so it all works out in the end :-). We have a modest but growing collection of fic to tempt you with.... (there are, incidentally, some other Dr Who crossovers which I very much enjoyed).

I have to say that I loved writing the Doctor and Illyan's scenes. For all I love Illyan dearly, there's no denying that he and the Doctor would not get on at all well, and since the Doctor cheats even more than Illyan does, he's bound to win. Except for the psychic paper; Illyan's got a bit of an unfair advantage there.

I'm not sure anyone's read it without knowing the Vorkosiverse, though I have heard from some LMB fans who don't know Dr Who. I was trying to think of it as an episode of Dr Who, the typical visit-to-a-strange-planet adventure, so I hope it works as that as well as an outsider's look at the Vor.

Anyway, thanks for the rec!

[frostfyre7.livejournal.com]

An excellent crossover fic. I've been in love with Miles for, oh, a decade or so now, and I love reading a good Doctor crossover fic!! I think what I particularly liked was that the writer chose to *not* have Miles' brief encounter with the Doctor himself occur when Miles is at the height of *his* powers, so to speak (the universe might have imploded, were that the case), but rather that the Doctor mostly interacted with the understandably frustrated and annoyed Illyan.

And the presence of a certain adventuress? Epic win. Of *course* she and Cordelia know each other and are friends.