Most of the fic I've written is posted here; of the stories I've done, there's one that's head and shoulders above the others in terms of generating feedback, and that's the Ithaca arc. Which is pretty good for a series that hasn't been finished - certainly gratifying for a writer to get that kind of response! (From hereon out in this post, you may run across spoilers for the series; I guess everyone reading this - someone is reading this, right? - has already read the series, but just in case, I thought I'd say that.) I've written Ithaca IV, I and III, and they're up on the website: II and V are still hovering out in the mists and, to be honest, I don't know that they'll ever get written. VI is written, though it's very short; it's just a brief epilogue, barely more than a page, but I can't post it until I've written II and V. I was the end of the war between Spectra and Earth, with Mark, Princess, Jason and Tiny at Camp Parker, recovering; Tiny isn't there, having died in the last hours of the war. III was a few decades later, after Keyop's death; by that stage, Mark and Princess had divorced (with hints that the experience wasn't exactly amicable), Keyop had died. Mark was working undercover for GalSec, Princess was Security Chief, Jason's occupation was uncertain, but he was around when Princess needed to talk. IV was set a few hundred years in the future; Princess is working for GalSec, and is on Spectra investigating reports that things are turning ugly there. II would cover either Keyop's death and the effect it had on the - now three - surviving members of the team, or Mark and Princess' divorce and the reasons for it; V would be a reunion between Mark, Princess and Jason, set after IV. So, a lot of water under the bridge for Mark and Princess; imagine meeting up with someone you first loved, then hated, and then avoided for a few centuries.... That's assuming I write them, of course, and that's by no means certain at the moment. For one thing, everyone can uess, I reckon, why Mark and Princess divorce; the straw that broke the camel's back doesn't matter. They just weren't ready for it, that's all. And Keyop's death - well, IV makes it clear why that happened. So I don't need to write it. And V - well, I'm just not sure where that's going to go. So I can't write that just yet. For another, the Ithaca world is a sad, painful one. Tiny doesn't survive the war, Keyop lives only a few years after it, Princess turns into a hard, cold person. Mark's a cipher; he doesn't appear in what I've written so far, except peripherally. Jason's the best adjusted of the lot of them. It's hard to enter that world; it's not a fun place to be, so I don't know that I want to go back there. Every now and then, I footle around with it and think that I should go back there, and it never quite pans out.

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