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 fan fiction short story. 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, updated June 2010.]

"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]

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 have just survived a brutal and deadly attack from her father, and Maya herself has strange and possibly dangerous powers of body and mind. While striken with grief and confusion about the death of her father and her world, 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. Alphans have been hit with harsh losses and lessons from their first year among the stars, triggering various ongoing transitions, changes, and plans in response. It is into this already-shifting milieu that Maya lands, while a new threat emerges. The destruction of Psychon has altered the course of Alpha in several ways, one of which brings them towards to an ancient world and a looming danger they think is like one they once survived -- one Maya has difficulty convincing them is potentially fatal this time, setting the unsure alien at odds with some people, 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 novel, released online (first part on 2009/04/25, and final part on 2009/06/23). Long novel. A somewhat (27%) shorter Abridged version was added on 2009/07/03, but it is still a long novel.]

"Whose Orders?" About a week after the end of the Exiles incident, and while traveling through a seemingly empty star system, Moonbase Alpha suffers a minor but inexplicable decompression event which damages the Protein Production Unit. Repairs are just beginning when they start detecting potential anomalies at moderate distance from the Moon. They dispatch an Eagle to investigate, only for those anomalies to disappear and new ones appear. This causes confusion and consternation as a seeming wild ghost chase begins in the space around the Moon. This leads to a confrontation between the newest officer and a pilot, and both some growth and setback for the former. Resource reminders recur for the Alphans, prompting some rationing, and serious consideration of some strange avian stowaways from a prior mission as one potential future way of solving part of that problem. Meanwhile, a new worry appears, one that has snuck up on them and may create fresh problems. [Y2 fan fiction novella released 2010/03/01. Currently available online.]

"Dance of the Flammon" Just what happened on the planet Crom II, mentioned so briefly later in the year? What about a science officer still relatively new on the job, being challenged on the science board of which she is the chairperson, when an experiment to try expanding food production has two possible paths? What happens when a rather typical social activity finally returns to Alpha for the first time since Breakaway? Does it bring some people closer together or reveal hidden fault lines? [Y2 fan fiction novella released 2010/04/04. Currently available online.]

Bridge Four The Prism (Part 1 of 4 is now available!) Sequel to The Transfer (1997, revised 2010). Though this novel was not to be released for some time, Part 1 was completed well ahead of expectations. Due to this and other reasons, this four-part novel will be released part by part. However, the spacing between each part's release will be several months each. Whether you wish to wait awhile (perhaps late 2011) for all parts to be released, or to read them as they are released, is up to each reader. (What follows is a shortened description of the whole novel, not just the first part. The original, longer description is still available.) The Alphans continue to realize there is far more to recent events than they had known. One Alphan, caught in arguably the strangest phenomenon earlier, now finds herself caught in a new effect while remaining firmly in place, even while she struggles with another difficult dilemma. One Alphan starts to remember bits of his journey of millennia. Another Alphan realizes she has journeyed to a most unexpected place. A long-running plan begins taking shape in pieces. Various alternate realities struggle.... One set of Alphans have found their Haven but struggle with new shocks and a new dawn -- but not necessarily the one they were expecting.... Another set, having done their best to try averting disaster, are caught by another surprise.... A most unexpected commander is left to deal with some fallout from two unusual collisions.... A commander of nothing who retired from space exploration in frustration, discovers someone unexpected, and that something should be missing.... There are more, all unaware that something else is awakening too.... [Space: 1999 fan fiction. Part 1 released on 2010/07/04. Remainder under development.]

"Echoes" by Meredith Kausch

Teacher, healer, mother, officer, pilot, leader. How many possibilities can one person encompass? Alpha, Psychon, Terra Alpha, Earth. Can too many possibilities mean the loss of uniqueness? Alpha, delta, zeta, nu, omicron. The confluence of multiple realities brings the risk of insanity.                                     And the promise of hope.

[Space: 1999 fan fiction short story (and introductory poem above) by Meredith Kausch. Released 2010/08/05. Currently available online.]

"Space: CXCIX" What if a sea-going vessel which sunk in the Mediterranian Sea over 2000 years ago had instead survived to deliver its cargo, including one rather curious real-life object of the time, late during the Roman Republic? This story follows an increasingly divergent history, filled with people/characters both familiar and not so familiar, as humanity strives for space. [History + WhatIf + Y1/Y2 crossover fan fiction short story planned for 2010Q4. Status (current as of M-04/13/09): First draft started.]

"Eagle Aerie Alpha" A couple months 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 2010Q4.]

"Damage Assessment" Starting immediately after "Breakaway" -- the Alphans begin to pick up the pieces and determine further details of the damage they took and what they are facing. [Year One short story planned for release in 2011Q1.]

"Music to the Ears" Summary to follow at a later point. [Year Two short story planned for release in early 2011.]

"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 2011.]

Bridge One The Ship A story set shortly before "The Metamorph." Even as massive changes set in on Alpha, even more massive changes beset its people, when aliens appear and start making a vague but insistent demand, one the Alphans do not know how or if to fulfill. Several Alphans pay the price over a conflict that is murky but intense. [Year One fan fiction planned for release in 2011.]

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 2011. Former working title: The Muffled Zone.]

Bridge Four The Prism (Sequel to The Transfer.) The Alphans continue to realize there is far more to recent events than they had known. One Alphan, caught in arguably the strangest phenomenon earlier, now finds herself caught in a new effect while remaining firmly in place, even while she struggles with another difficult dilemma. One Alphan starts to remember bits of his journey of millenia. Another Alphan realizes she has journeyed to a most unexpected place. There are new announcements on Alpha. A long-running plan begins taking shape in pieces. Change, an erratic but powerful force, is accelerating once again. The "Omegans" (introduced in The Transfer) find themselves struggling with new shocks and a new dawn -- but not necessarily the one they were expecting. They find something strange in the star system they hoped was their Haven, and some difficult problems and choices arise. The "Omicrons" (the other "group" in TT, not named until now), having done their best to try averting disaster, are caught by another surprise. 'Elsewhere' .... A most unexpected commander is left to deal with some fallout from two unusual collisions, her contact with one perhaps having partially triggered an aspect of the other. .... A commander of nothing who retired from space exploration in frustration, and the medical doctor he barely knows, meet someone unexpected, who gives them a clue to something missing -- and something that should be missing. All the while, everyone is at first failing to realize something long in awakening, close at hand, is now here. It goes mostly unrecognized at first, until they are all brought face-to-face with something capable of changing the course of their futures, greatly. [See status in primary entry.]

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 2012.]

Of Mutation and Metamorphosis Summary to follow at a later point. [Space: 1999 story proposed for 2013(?).]

"Estimates Only" Note: All "proposed" and "planned" dates are revised estimates as of M-05/16/09, nothing more. They are not guaranteed release dates. Sorry. Summaries are subject to change as well.

Plans for Bridges and Anchorages

Other Fan Fiction Sites 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: Most of 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. Space 1999 FanFiction Archive, located at FanFiction.net Camilla's website has at least sixteen Stories (in German) by her and other authors. At least two of Camilla's stories are translated and linked from an English-language page (which has more than just fanfic).

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