Fanfic Recommendation Challenge

Claim: SGA
Prompt: 27: Beginnings
Title: A Team Is Borne
Author: danvers
Rating: PG
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This piece is a little left of center in a lot of ways, but what shines through are a great Lorne and a great Cadman. If you grant the author the premise, there's a lot of fun and interesting characterization to be found.
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Link: A Team Is Borne



Claim: SGA
Prompt: 15: Crack!Fic
Title: What Happens In The Clubhouse
Author: skoosiepants
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Kids. Sheppard, McKay, et al. are kids. Adorable, bratty, sniffly kids. The characterization is great and the evolution of the story avoids cliche. It's more fun than you should be allowed to have.
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Link: What Happens In The Clubhouse

Table of recs available here.

Claim: SGA
Prompt: 23: Time
Title: The Secret Life of Scientists
Author: julad
Rating: R
Length: Long
Brief summary: Julad's given us some excellent S1 setting in fic, coupled with a gorgeous conceit of Zelenka gifting McKay with time. It's sweet but still hollow with the regretful reality of living in Atlantis, and it stands out very well against the background cast and scenery she's created.
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Link: The Secret Life of Scientists



Claim: SGA
Prompt: 2: AU
Title: A Supermarket in California
Author: taffetablue
Rating: R
Length: Long
Brief summary: The secret to a good AU is that it shows you something about the characters you didn't already know. This fic takes the lackadaisical side of John and pushes it to the forefront, creating a John who's at peace, and it's beautiful. Both Rodney and John are very well drawn and they're different, better, easier than we see on the show. It's a great twist on the characters we love.
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Link: A Supermarket in California

Reccer's table here.

Claim: SGA
Prompt: 12: Humor
Title: Fifteen Hours
Author: ltlj
Rating: PG
Length: Medium
Brief summary: It's a road trip fic, if by "road trip" you really mean "traveling through space in a puddlejumper," complete with silly games and threats to turn the car around and the inevitable, "Are we there yet?" It's a great moment in time piece that shows us another side of life on Atlantis when a multitude of crises aren't imminent. The author subtly adds some very poignant moments, making this a weighty read disguised as humor.
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Link: Fifteen Hours



Claim: SGA
Prompt: 45: Taste
Title: Rodney and Cadman Go Down
Author: kormantic
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Well, it's precisely what the title says: a fun bit of McKay/Cadman Duet aftermath (with a dash of McKay/Sheppard) that's weird enough to be worthy of Rodney. There's capture and torture, if by "torture" you mean "four star hotel accommodations" and then the cavalry shows up, only the rescuees are naked and not really in need of rescuing at this precise moment, thank you very much. And I love this Cadman, brave and silly and so very much alive. This is just the kind of post-Duet fic you've been wanting to read.
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Link: Rodney and Cadman Go Down

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