Ellen Fremedon's Fanfic Recommendations

The Alt.Startrek.Creative* Hierarchy

• Trekiverse
  The archive for the Alt.Startrek.Creative hierarchy, including ASC, ASCEM(L), and ASCA.

• The ASCEM(L)Hompage
  Alt.Startrek.Creative.Erotica.Moderated (ASCEM)'s home on the web. FAQ's, how to access ASCEM, and the campus of Trek Smut University.

• The Golden O Archive
  The winners of ASCEM's annual awards, the Golden Orgasms.

• Fuhq Fest Schedule
  A guide to current and completed festivals launched by the denizens of ASCEM.

Author Pages

• Karmen Ghia_After the Rescue. Various series, mostly slash.
  Karmen's novel "After the Rescue" is a masterpiece of worldbuilding, with a huge cast of marvellously complex original characters and a byzantine plot that puts Dickens to shame. Her TOS short stories mostly involve Chekov; lately, Karmen has begun writing very good G/B as well.
• Alara's Q-niverse. TNG, slash, het, and gen.
  Contains the classic Deja Q spinoff "Only Human" and its spinoffs, as well as other Q fanfic.
• Doublenut's Fanfic Index. Mostly TNG, mostly slash, some het.
  Your first stop for Data smut on the web, this vast page archives J. Juls's often wildly funny stories and many other writers' work; her links are also worth checking out.
• the flambeau factory. VOY and other fandoms, slash.
  Insightful essays and well-written stories by torch, including some excellent Paris/Kim. I particularly like the "Playboy of the Delta Quadrant" series, the title of which does not refer to Tom Paris.
• Giffstein Productions Mostly TNG, slash and het.
  This site contains works by Ruth Gifford and atara stein, and their collaborations. "His Beloved Pet" is a P/Q classic; also highly recommended are atara's U2 trilogy and Ruth's "My Fair Jeanne."
• Gil Shalos Fanfic. TOS gen and slash.
  Gil's wonderful gen story "The Fruits of Diplomacy" is here; there's a link to her old site, with the equally wonderful prequel "The Difference It Makes" and her other work.
• Hafital's Smutty Star Trek Paradise. Various series, slash, het, and gen.
  Hafital's stories just keep getting better and better. Check out the "Speak into Silence" series of gen stories and the PWP "Burnt Sugar."
• Helmboy. Mostly VOY, mostly slash.
  One of the most prolific writers on the 'net; I haven't read half of her best work, but what I have read is excellent. Many keyboards have been lost to Helmboy's humor; you might want to set down your drink now.
• Intreat Me Not To Leave Thee. TOS K/S.
  This story by C.M. Decarnin is still unfinished, but even as it is, it's one of the most intense slash stories-- make that one of the most intense fanfic stories-- I've ever read. The story deals with some pretty hard-core bdsm, but even if that's not your kink it's an excellent story and worth a read-- it won me over, and I wasn't expecting it to.
• Invicta's Place. DS9 and other fandoms, slash.
  Invicta's "Deja Jules" is one of my favorite G/B stories ever.
• Invisible Planets: Jungle Kitty's Star Trek Fiction TOS, het, slash, and gen.
  Jungle Kitty is one of the best Kirk writers out there, and her Suzanne Brandt is one of my very favorite original characters in Trek fanfic. Her fiction ranges from gritty and dark ("Golden Boy," "The Uneasy Dancers") through zany and hilarious ("Les Liaisons Ridicules") through uplifting and stirring ("The Siege Perilous"), to name only a few of my favorites.
• Isla's Home Page. Mostly TOS, slash.
  Islaofhope is a fine K/S writer, one of the few in 'net fandom concentrating on ER (Established Relationship) stories. Among her longer stories, I'm especially fond of "The Incident" and "The Same Mistake," and of "The Chess Game" among her PWP's, but you'll probably find your own favorites.
• Istannor's Startrek Fanfic. TOS, gen and slash.
  Istannor's Logs and Letters series is a masterpiece of spackle, each letter and log entry interwoven with the others and with the other stories in the entity's canon; xe doesn't just write, xe channels the characters' voices.
• Fresh Tracks. TOS and VOY, slash and het.
  Jane St. Clair seems to be retired from Trek fiction now, alas; she's one of the best stylists in fanfic and her stories are gems.
• jat sapphire's story pages. TOS and others, slash, het, and gen.
  Jane (jat) is one of my very favorite TOS writers, and judging by her showing in the 2000 Golden O's I'm not the only one who feels that way. Her K/S diptych, "Still Amok" and "Coals of Fire", is recommended below in the pon farr recs; I also highly recommend "Kaddish," "Built on the Sand," and "Leadership..."
• Kathryn Ramage. DS9, mostly slash.
  Several of Kathryn's stories took home well-deserved Golden O's in 2000; among the non-award-winners, I'm especially fond of the gritty "Damage Control" and the lighthearted "The Midday Meal That Dare Not Speak Its Name."
• Kathleen Dailey's Fan Fiction Page. TOS and TNG, het and gen.
  Home of two excellent novels about the Romulan Commander from "The Enterprise Incident"; Kathleen's spackles of that episode and of "Unification" are compelling and plausible and her characters, original and canon, come to life.
• Kiff's Voyager Slash Page. Various slash pairings and some J/C.
  Check out the "Delta Suite." The "Time's Orphans" series and the "Un" suite are also excellent.
• Killa's Adventures in Melodrama. Mostly TOS, K/S and quasi-gen.
  Killa is the giant whose shoulders we all stand on. Her novel Bitter Glass may well be my favorite work of fanfiction, but her other works-- Turning Point/Full Circle, "Surrender," "Cover of Night," "Ghost in the Machine"-- are equally renowned, and justly so.
• Laura's Fanfiction. Various series, slash, het, and gen.
  Laura Jacquez Valentine is one of the most original fanfic writers out there, and is the acknowledged master of the PG-13 PWP. Her Darkfic recommendations are always worth checking out, even if they're in fandoms you don't read.
• Lady Kardasi's Domain.
  Various. Here you will find kira-nerys' own fanfic, several online zines, the Spock, K/S, and P/Q fests, and other goodies. I especially recommend kira's Julian Blues suite (G/B) and the K/S PWP "Nightly Revelations". kira also hosts two sites for other writers:
  
  • Greywolf's Lair is the home of Greywolf the Wanderer, who has won the Captain Jinx award for Best Author three years running in the Golden O's. His pon farr stories are rec'ed below; you also don't want to miss the angsty "And In The Darkness Bind You" and "Folsom Prison Blues," the sweet "Fire on the Mountain," or the hot PWP's "The Naughty Cabin Boy" and "Not Fade Away."
  • EmGee's Stories. EmGee writes K/S/f threesomes with an OFC, and writes them very well indeed. My favorite of her stories is probably the very dark "Surrogate."
• Macedon's Taberna. Various series, slash, het, and gen.
  Macedon and Peg's VOY novel "Talking Stick and Circle" is many readers' favorite work of fanfic; I can't praise it too highly. The "Jeu-Parti" trilogy, focusing on Jake Sisko, is also well worth reading.
• Mark Stanley's Page. Mostly DS9, mostly slash.
  "Secrets" and "Dear Garak" are especially good.
• Promised Land. All series, all pairings, and then some.
  This novel by The Enigmatic Big Miss Sunbeam took home the Best Story Golden O for 2000. It's a big, sprawling, summer beach novel of a book, where at the end you're surprised the characters have grown and changed so much, because they grew so gradually and naturally. An audacious AU, it follows the career of the bluegrass band Johnny Picard and his Magic Mountain Boys, from prison into stardom and beyond. And against all odds, it works, and it's a great story.
• Rabble Rouser's Rec Room. Various series, mostly gen.
  Rabble Rouser can take characters most writers might not give a second thought-- Yeoman Rand, Captain Harriman, T'Pring-- and breathe life into them. She also has the most thorough TOS recs page I know of.
• Robin's Rude Trek Stories Various series, largely slash, some het, some humor.
  "Of Mime and Marmots" and "Penis? Irrelevant!" are two of my very favorites, but click anywhere and you'll probably find something zany and wonderful.
• Roisin Fraser. TOS, het and gen.
  Roisin's "Intermissions", a series of short vignettes set behind the scenes of TOS episodes, are masterpieces of simplicity; her T'Rela stories introduce us to the Akaren, a non-Surakian nomadic people of Vulcan.
• Varoneeka's Slash, Mush, and More Mostly TNG, slash.
  Varoneeka's P/Q stories are classics; her "Bond" series is rare in the genre for showing us an established P/Q relationship. The page also archives her collaborations with Ruth Gifford, and the Anon Sisters' stories, including the amazing "Escher Dreams."
• Wildcat's Trek Fiction. TOS, het, slash and gen.
  Wildcat's Spock/Uhura series is marvellous and compelling; "The Debussy Suite" and "The Most Forgiven" are probably my favorites, but they are all well worth reading. Her challenge pieces include some excellent and award-winning stories as well.

Resources for Writers and Scholars

• The Fan Fiction Directory
  Zoe Rayne's massive directory is updated monthly and extensively cross-indexed; it includes links to fanfic-related articles and scholarship, as well as to author pages, archives, groups and webrings.
• Minotaur's Sex Tips For Slash Writers
  An invaluable resource. With illustrations, even.
• Alternate Universes: Fanfic Studies
  Mary Ellen Curtin's site contains articles, links, and recs; her fanfic; Judith Gran's fanfic; and the Foresmutters' Project, an archive of early printzine slash.
• The Mary Sue Society
  If you don't know who Mary Sue is, you need to visit this page. If you do know who Mary Sue is, you need to visit this page.

Pon Farr Stories

I love a good pon farr story! These are some of my favorites.
Being pon farr stories, they all involve sex (duh!), and some of them are slash, so bear this in mind if adult content or same-sex sex bothers you.

• Arachnethe2, "Pon Farr" (S/f, K/S)
  This story has a likeable OFC and Ara's usual excellent characterizations.
• Ascem Noone, "Between Equals" (Spock/Picard)
  This anonymous story has an excellent Spock POV, and shows just how much Spock and Picard have in common.
• Beth Meenaghan, "Twelfth Night" (S/Cha)
  Beth's Chapel is believable, honest, and compelling; the story took an honorable mention in the 1997 Golden O's.
• Boadicea, "Farr Haven" (J/Tu, J/Michael)
  I'm not a huge Janeway fan, but Boadicea's Janeway stories are always worth reading; this one is an especially clever spackle as well.
• Cinder, "I Know" (Tu/K)
  A sweet, gentle pon farr fisting story (yes, really), with a unique portrayal of Vulcan anatomy.
• Dusk, "Beyond the Bounds of Friendship" (Vorik/Kim)
  What if Vorik had stayed on the ship in "Blood Fever?"
• Greywolf the Wanderer
  
  • "Lost Sailor" and "Ripple" (K/S)
    A diptych: the first story is h-c, with Greywolf's usual, unflinching approach; the second is an excellent, very gentle K/S.
  • "Box of Rain" (Spock/Tuvok)
    Answer to a Spock/Tuvok challenge, winner of two Golden O's.
  • "Dark Star" (S/f, K/S)
    Drug-induced pon farr, revenge, spackle and angst!
  • "Morning Dew" (K/S)
    The novel-length sequel to the excellent AU stories "Deep Elem Blues" and "New Minglewood Blues", this multiple-GO-winning story is one of my very favorites.
• Hafital, "Blanket of Stars" (Spock/Janeway)
  A fine story from the Spock Fuhq-Fest, and a Golden O winner.
• Helmboy, "Tuvok Hits Pon Farr and Chakotay Hits the Fan" (Tu/P, C/P)
  I can't even think about this story without laughing.
• Jamelia, "Quid Pro Quo" (Tu/m/f, others)
  I'd rather not give away the pairing of this tensely-paced, suspenseful story, which far out-canons canon in believable and compelling characterizations and plot.
• Jane St. Clair, "Iowa" (K/S)
  Jane has one of the most distinctive voices in fanfic, and this strangely beautiful story is one of her best.
• Jat Sapphire, "Still Amok" and "Coals of Fire" (K/S)
  This diptych is the most emotionally honest look at the aftermath of "Amok Time" I have ever read, and the stories are two of the best-written in fanfic. Both won well-deserved GO's.
• Judith Gran, "The Body's Treason" and "This Dialog of One" (K/S, S/f)
  An unusual, but all too plausible, angle on the pon farr, and a compelling story.
• kira-nerys
  
  • "Light After Darkness" (Spock/Data)
    A Golden O winner from the Spock Fuhq-Fest; Spock comes to Veridian to mourn James T. Kirk.
  • "Shackled" (K/S)
    This PWP was written for National Masturbation Month. It's hot. Extremely so.
• K'Sal, "In Check" (K/S)
  I will tell you right out that, though this story contains sex, it doesn't take place during the pon farr. But K'Sal's Vulcan worldbuilding and explanation of the events in and after "Amok Time" are some of the best I've seen-- thorough, logical, and compelling-- and the story is way too good not to rec.
• Rae Trail, "Out of the Big Black" (K/S)
  Rae gives the boys a wonderful new beginning in this story; the sequel, "Onto the Deep Blue," is also well worth reading.
• Raku
  
  • "The Magic Hand of Chance" and "Blowing Out the Flame" (Tu/P)
    Finely drawn characters and very hot sex scenes. Raku is able to show the pon farr in graphic detail while still keeping enough distance for it not to overwhelm hir descriptions or hir narrative voice-- quite a feat.
  • "Take It Like A Man" (S/f, K/S)
    A good look at the meaning of family, and an interesting experiment with POV, as well as an excellent K/S story.
• Robin Lawrie, "Pon Farr Night at the Vulcan Night Club" (K/S)
  Short, nothing explicit, satirical, and very hot all the same.
• Saavant
  
  • "A Violent Past" (K/S)
    
  • "Self-Inflicted Wounds" (K/S)
    
  • "Nine Lost Lives" (K/S)
    Three stories in the same timeline from one of the newer voices in slash. Saavant's descriptions of the technical aspects of the Vulcan mental disciplines are especially interesting.
• Shayney, "Necessity" (Tu/T, P/T)
  This spackle of "Body and Soul" is the literary equivalent of a cup of good espresso-- short, dark, and intense.
• Sigrid the Haughty, "Stranded" (Tu/P)
  The beginning of Sigrid's Tuvok/Paris series; the sequels are also well worth reading.
• Taylor Dancinghands, "The Way of the Truth Seeker" (Spock/Data)
  I mean, we always knew, right? After all, esoteric mental disciplines aren't good for much if you can't develop some esoteric erotic arts. Taylor's wonderful story initiates us into the Vulcan tantra. And my oh my oh my oh my is it hot...
• T'Lin
  
  • "The Healing Power of Plomik Soup" (S/Cha)
    An 'Amok Time' coda and GO winner for best S/Cha in 2000; the sequel, "Food for Thought," adds a K/S plot as well.
  • "In a Mirror, Darkly" (Spock/Mirror Spock)
    Another pairing from the Spock Fuh-q Fest. And what a pairing it is!
• Wildcat, "Time is the Fire" (S/U)
  The pon farr story of Wildcat's magnificent Spock/Uhura series, and a good spackle of Star Trek V, to boot.
• Yvette, "Bad Timing, or, Will Kill to Fuck" (Tu/K)
  The pon farr story of Yvette's Tuvok/Kim series; the other stories are also well worth your while.

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Last updated February 13, 2002