Fan Fiction

The Law of Indirection When an accident kills a group of aliens, the Alphans are blamed and Maya is kidnapped through a transport process that is harrowing to the metamorph. Her abilities prove to be of little use as she struggles to escape the clutches of vengeful aliens who have an unusual conception of justice. She uses every means at her disposal, but the aliens seem able to counter her every clever move; and she finds herself in progressively worse situations. The Alphans are left attempting to determine the cause of Maya's disappearance and to judge the motives of mysterious and uncommunicative aliens whose ships cannot be found and whose worlds remain far beyond Eagle range. This story reveals more about Maya's personality, her abilities, and their limitations--as well as showing aspects of other characters, including a view of a changing Alpha through a Year One guest character's eyes. It shows an alien culture with interesting technologies that seem to foil Maya and leave the other Alphans grasping for explanations. It also details some aspects of the Moon's own strange form of travel. [Year Two fan fiction published in 1995. Currently available online.]

"A 'Brief' History of Piri" A speculative short story on the possible background and history of the world called Piri, including the creation of the Guardian of Piri and subsequent disappearance of the Pirians themselves, leaving behind only the Guardian and its mechanical servant. [Year One speculative fiction. First published in July 1996. Currently available online.]

"A Space Odyssey: 1999" I first published this 20K short story on the Space: 1999 Internet Mailing List on 1997/06/06, and very slightly revised it in 1999. It melds some of S19's "Breakaway" episode and parts of the "2001" movie together, finding some existing similarities (at some level), and creating others of my own to put them together. [Year One crossover fiction. Currently available online. First published in June 1997.]

The Transfer Combined Y1/Y2 cast story. Months after the Dorcon attack, the Moon encounters a star system. While mining a mineral-rich planet, a second 'copy' of Victor mysteriously appears. Is he from a different time or reality? An alien from the supposedly dead planet? Or is he an elaborate deception--a distraction from an even worse problem? When the real Victor disappears, leaving only the duplicate, order starts to disintegrate, and the Alphans find things changing around them, for the worst. John, Helena, Maya, Alan, Tony, and Sandra are all flung into strange forms of Alpha, including: a pre-Breakaway Alpha whose calendar of fate has been altered; a moonbase filled with nothing but copies of one individual, confronted with a ship of aliens who are both familiar and unfamiliar; and a moonbase of the not-so-far-future hauntingly dubbed Omega, for it appears to be a dying place on the edge of oblivion. Some individuals attempt to evade detection as they try to determine whether they are in another time, another reality, or just an elaborate deception. Others are immediately trapped by doppelgängers of unknown intent. Can these scattered individuals discover the secrets of their new environments? Can they help Alpha avoid several tragic fates? Or will their own interference cost them their freedom--or their lives? ["Year Three" (in this case, combination of Y1+Y2 characters) novel, 440K of HTML text + 110K of images, Currently available online, in several parts. First published in 1997.]

"Simpsons: 1999" Inspired by Ken Scott's art -- uploaded to OA's website in July 2007 -- of three Alphans (Helena Russell, John Koenig, and Maya) as Simpsons characters, I had an amusing thought I later decided to run with for a few hours, and ended up writing a short story which is half familiar, half off the wall -- all only for the fun of it. This is probably the silliest thing I've written in ages, and it likely could be considered a parody of some sort; but rather than focusing on some of my least-favorite S19 episodes or aspects, or something like that, I took some of my most favorite material of S19 and mixed in an equal helping of The Simpsons. The results may be worth a chuckle or two. [Year One/Two + The Simpsons crossover fiction published in August 2007. Currently available online. Artwork courtesy of Ken Scott.]

"The Eagle" An unexpected Eagle mission leads to a surprise situation. [Year Two fan fiction short story first released on Oct. 19, 2007. Currently available online. 30KB story + 190KB image]

Bridge Two Troubled Waters This story spans the two-month gap between "The Metamorph" (day 342+) and "The Exiles" (day 403). As the recovery from yet another attack begins, and transitions already underway continue, the people of Moonbase Alpha have to make an unexpected welcome to Maya, Daughter of Mentor. The Alphans had just survived a brutal and deadly attack from her father, and Maya herself had strange and possibly dangerous powers of body and mind. While striken with grief and confusion about the death of her father and her world, trying to alternately bury her past and start coming to terms with it, she has to deal with a present filled with aliens who are a bewildering mixture of caring, fear, gratitude, anger, and resentment. Some are welcoming; others want nothing to do with her. One security officer is unsure of her, and another man has to wrestle more losses than most, perhaps finding a too-handy target in the alien's daughter. The destruction of Psychon has altered the course of Alpha in several ways, and one of which brings them towards a looming threat, to an ancient world, and to a danger they think is one they once survived -- one Maya has difficulty convincing them is potentially fatal this time, setting the unsure Maya at odds with some of the others, and propelling her into a role she had not expected. To the city under glass, two halves as whole, a bridge of power, long untraveled, seekers flock, to flee fury, find new space. [Year Two fan fiction story planned for 2008 Q3.]

"Eagle Aerie Alpha" Not long into the wayward Earth colony's travels, several key numerical trends -- some not unexpected and some a total shock -- both delight and trouble the Alphans, prompting some study and changes, not all of which are welcome. [Year One novella planned for release in 2008 Q4.]

"We Need a New..." A story which will probably be set after "Space Brain." (Further summary will follow at a later point.) [Year One short story planned for release in early 2009.]

Bridge One A story set shortly before "The Metamorph." Massive changes set in on Alpha, and even more massive changes beset its people. Further summary to follow at a later point. [Year One fan fiction planned for release in early 2009.]

Bridge Three Muffled Space Memory becomes rarer than tiranium, as Alphans forget their names, where they are, each other, and of most immediate danger, their duties. Maya, virtually unaffected, apparently by pure chance, and haunted by some of her recent memories, is now thought to be a hostile alien, even while intruders wander the base, indistinguishable at first among the Alphans. Unaware they are being manipulated, and of a rising power close at hand, they struggle to rediscover themselves and each other, trying to come to terms with severed relationships and ghosts of the past as they confront long-standing mysteries that resurge to the forefront of Alphan existence, and threaten to separate them from each other as they each discover a startling choice. [Space: 1999 fan fiction proposed for release in 2009. Former working title: The Muffled Zone.]

Bridge Four Sequel to The Transfer. The Alphans continue to realize there is far more to recent events than they had known, and the "Omegans" (introduced in The Transfer) find themselves struggling with new shocks. Both peoples struggle with new discoveries of their recent pasts, and new discoveries close at hand in their present, bringing them face to face with something capable of changing the course of their futures greatly. [Space: 1999 fan fiction proposed for 2009.]

The Frontier (Working title only, based on its location within the Bridges and Anchorages series) Follows Bridge Four. Summary to follow at a later point. [Space: 1999 fan fiction proposed for 2010.]

[Of] Mutation and Metamorphosis Summary to follow at a later point. [Space: 1999 story proposed for 2010(?).]

"Estimates Only" Note: All "proposed" and "planned" dates are revised estimates as of A-02/02/08, nothing more. They are not guaranteed release dates. Sorry. Summaries are subject to change as well.

Plans for Bridges and Anchorages

Fan Fiction from Other Authors The Space: 1999 Fiction Archive (managed by Ariana) is probably the largest listing of available online fan fiction, some archived at the site and some from all over the Web. Contains a wide variety of listings from numerous authors, arranged in various categories. (Note: My currently-available stories are listed there as well.) Ellen's Space: 1999 Fan Fiction Pages, including a variety of authors and a lot of stories as well. Many but not all of these stories have a primary focus on John and Helena, but there are various others as well.

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