A Rough Road Leads to the Stars by Freyja (PG13)

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Show: SGA

Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: John Sheppard, Radek Zelenka, Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan
Pairings: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard

Categories: Angst, Alternate Universe Pre-slash
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: None
Author's Website: Freyja on Wraithbait
Link: A Rough Road Leads to the Stars

Why This Must Be Read: The Summary says: 1960s. John's an astronaut, a perpetual alternate for the latest mission to the moon. Rodney's an acerbic rocket scientist who's been on loan to NASA from Canada. When one of the other astronauts can't go, John gets picked to go on the mission. Naturally, everything goes wrong, and it turns out that Rodney's the only one who can bring them back home.

This is sort of a SGA remix of Apollo 13 although Apollo 13 flew to the moon in 1970. They are 3 years earlier in this universe, because the authors prompt said that this has to take place in the 60s. John, Ronan and Teyla (Lovell-Hanks, Swigert-Bacon and Hayes-Paxton on Apollo 13 movie) are astronauts flying to the moon when the mission goes wrong and Rodney is the flight director (Gene Krantz-Harris on Apollo 13 movie) who helps bring them home.

Apollo 13 is one of my all time favourite movies as SGA is one of my all time favourite TV shows so remix the two and this is the fic you get.

I have always had a passing fascination with the space race, and moon landings. One of my earliest memories is on holiday with my family back in July 1969 looking up at a tiny whote TV screen with fuzzy pictures of Neil Armstrong stepping foot on the moon of of later news reports of the Apollo missions.


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That Would be the Fever Talking by JDJunkie (Explicit)

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill
Pairings: Daniel Jackson/Jack O’Neill
Categories: Slash, Hurt/Comfort
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: jd_junkie
Author's Website: jdjunkie at AO3
Link: That Would be the Fever Talking

Why This Must Be Read: I have loved this fic since I first read it, most particularly for the writing style and presentation, although I always love a good h/c fic. It covers a whole lot of ground for a short fic via Jack's feverish and fragmented thought processes, touching on Jack's adolescence, the hazards of the job, and his relationship with Daniel.

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