Novenas & Novellas

According to FanFiction.net, Dyce hasn’t posted since June 11, 2008. A check of other places on the web indicates that she last updated her AO3 account in 2021 and she last updated her original fiction blog in 2024.

That’s sometimes the nature of fandom, and of writing as a whole. Individuals drift in and out of the community over time; some, multiple times, and others only once. But the legacies often live on in the form of the written works themselves, and that’s what’s happened with Dyce’s Horseshoe Nail (fan fiction for Firefly) series. It consists of five stories:

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For my first fan fiction review, I’ve gone back to one of my all-time favorites: Come Whatever, posted by gabolange in September 2022.

Summary: Susan really had meant to put the whole day–week, really–behind her in the immediate aftermath of “Sic Transit Vir.” A story of friendship, change, and getting the last word.

This delightful short story, written from the viewpoint of Commander Susan Ivanova, is lighthearted while addressing topics that are actually quite serious — just like the episode it’s based on, Sic Transit Vir. In it, poor Ivanova is surrounded by questions about alien sex and the political ramifications of romantic pairings, and when she has the expected reactions things don’t go quite the way she’d like.

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