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*has glee*

  • Apr. 4th, 2008 at 12:38 PM
pepper: Pepperpot (Schmoop)
Just read City of the Gods. Basically, this happens...

Sam and Jack are temporarily stranded alone together on what they think is an uninhabited planet. Sam is trapped and nearly dies, and there are flashbacks to Divide and Conquer. Jack has to give her the kiss of life, then take off all her wet clothes and snuggle in a sleeping bag with her to conserve body heat. Then they find a hot spring, which – the planet being half frozen – they'll have to use to keep warm. 

My brain goes AU.

They discover the native population, and are taken for husband and wife gods. They save some kids, and get to go home. When they return to the planet, they're under orders to pose as the husband and wife gods (Jack has to call Sam 'Chalchi', which made me go all warm and fuzzy inside). Things happen, and Sam thinks Jack has died, and despairs. Jack thinks Sam (and 'their' kids) have died, sinks to his knees, overwhelmed by loss and grief. More stuff happens, SG-1 win out, the end.
Summary for those avoiding the spoilers:

Sam/Jack cliché-palooza! It only needs an alien sex farm, and for Sam to be marrying some complete loser, and they'd have the full set (and I hear one of those things happens in Alliances). Is it wrong that I'm this delighted to discover that some of the Stargate novels are essentially well-written badfic? :D And that I kind of want to write the missing hot spring scene? 

Comments

[identity profile] vickyocean.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 4th, 2008 12:34 pm (UTC)
I despair at the fact that we don't have a bookstore near where I work, 'cause you can be sure I'd be picking that up at lunch. I was just thinking that I needed a break from the somewhat dense and heavy books I've been slogging through lately. This sounds ideal. : )
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 4th, 2008 12:43 pm (UTC)
Hah. You should see the amount of times I had to go back to review the history the author had spent pages explaining. "Teotihuacan is a place, Tzcatlipoca and Tonatui are at war... or... something..."

Aztec names are hard to read, yo!
[identity profile] vickyocean.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 4th, 2008 01:05 pm (UTC)
That's okay. All those strange names will just get muddled and my mind will just gloss over them anytime they appear. Hmm, that's probably why I wasn't so great at learning foreign languages.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Apr. 4th, 2008 01:12 pm (UTC)
I did exactly that. But the names KEEP appearing. All the time. It made the plot quite hard to understand, because it took me ages to establish who was posing as who and who they were fighting and why.

I'm not trying to dissade you from reading this - I'm just giving you fair warning. ;)

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