Grammatology by Aesc (PG)

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Rec Category: Original Character
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay implied
Category: future fic
Warning: mention of character deaths
Author on LJ: aesc
Author's Website: author's page on Wraithbait

Link: Grammatology

Why This Must Be Read:

Here is a story that contains my two favorite things: history and language, with a highly original narrative and beautiful writing.

The story is set far into the future and the people, their customs and their language are so foreign, it took me several reads to truly appreciate all the small nuances and to recognize the fragments of history that the main character Adamne-So refers to.

The despair of Sheppard and McKay, who are thrown into a time and a world they do not belong to and Adamne's curiosity and wonder at these two strangers who have walked right out of myth, are beautifully interwoven.



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They choose her because she, Adamne Sor, had once studied things that are lost. Fragments, words here and there, salvaged from metal and synthetic artifacts, a few lines of an inscription found on a scrap of something like steel at the edge of the ocean, a few more lines from another piece dug up by builders clearing land. Stone, once, or something like it, from an excavation of what they thought had once been a system of piers, but not enough, though, survives to constitute any meaningful study, so much lost during the Oriu iarasz, and in the Search.