Rec Category: Futurefic
Categories: humor, Daniel, original character
Warnings: sneak crossover with Highlander
Author on LJ: tallulah_rasa
Author's Website: Tallulah Rasa at AO3
Link: H is for History

Why This Must Be Read: From the first reference to Dr. Daniel Jackson (1964-2002, 2004-2060) you will start grinning at the sheer hilarity of this fantastic send up of the many, many mistakes that inevitably creep into any attempt to understand history without the proper references. It's great fun to see how a 22nd century historian misinterprets so much of what we understand ourselves, even if the humor is bittersweet sometimes!

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Rec Category: Bra'tac
Categories: episode related, character study, Kasuf, futurefic
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: magibrain
Author's Website: Magistrate at AO3
Link: Fire and Calm

Why This Must Be Read: This gorgeously splendid character study takes Bra'tac's first journey to Kheb, the ultimate destruction and mass Ascension of Abydos, and seamlessly fuses them together into a beautiful exploration of choice, perspective, age, and progress.

Both Bra'tac and Kasuf are courageous mentors who watched their disciples and children soar to greater heights. Here, Magistrate does justice to both of them.

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Rec Category: Cassandra Frasier
Categories: future fic, action/adventure, Jennifer Hailey
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: normative_jean
Author's Website: nj_fic / Normative Jean at AO3
Link: The Footprints I Left Behind

Why This Must Be Read: I devoured this story with a huge grin on my face: Jennifer Hailey and Cassandra Frasier, on a mission-gone-wrong through the Stargate. I love the characterization and the snark and the shared challenge of living up to huge expectations. Throw in a great science-y twist, and you've got a real winner of a futurefic!

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Rec Category: Jack and Daniel friendship
Categories: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, futurefic, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: tallulah_rasa
Author's Website: To Explore the Universe and Eat Pie
Link: Half-life

Why This Must Be Read: This splendid fic is classic Tallulah Rasa: the quirkiness of Jack and Daniel banter with the underlying, almost unspoken depth of their mutual understanding. This is the kind of futurefic I love -- lives well lived and (if not complete satisfaction) a peaceful acceptance of where they've been and where they're going.

Absolutely, positively guaranteed to make you smile. Go enjoy!

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Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Pairing: none
Categories: Jack O'Neill, gen, futurefic, character study
Warnings: references to canon minor character deaths; minor spoilers for SGU
Author on LJ: redbyrd_sgfic
Author's Website: Redbyrd's SG-1 Fic
Link: Hold Until Relieved

Why This Must Be Read: Redbyrd just posted this fabulous little character sketch, and I had to rec it immediately.

Jack contemplates his future in George Hammond's company. Beautifully poignant and fitting, and a glimpse of the man, his duty, and the hard choices he always makes.

Go. Read. Savor.


On bad days, he swore it was worse than Iraq, Antarctica and Ba'al's prison combined. But Jack had his people's backs.

Rec Category: Cassandra Frasier
Pairing: none
Categories: Cassandra, gen, character study, angst, futurefic
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: slm76
Author's Website: matt1969
Link: Pearl in the Shell

Why This Must Be Read: In the aftermath of Janet's death, Cassie isn't exactly willing to tamely follow the bright and shining path that others have mapped out of her. Stubborn and angry, she goes her own way... until that way proves nearly disastrous. It takes Sam's unquestioning love and support, a quiet and honest conversation with Jack (with Thor for company), and the memory of an exchange with Teal'c to lead Cassie to a new decision and a new vocation. Her final, unexpected choice is a moving tribute to her past, a promise for a better future, and absolutely right.


I knew, of course, that I could have gone anywhere and done anything. People were constantly telling me that the world was my oyster, although I never really understood what that meant. Daniel tried explaining it to me once, but I got lost in the anthropological meaning of the phrase's origin. Teal'c set me straight, sort of. "It means the world is yours to explore, Cassandra Fraiser." And, while I got that, I still didn't understand the connection to slimy and disgusting shellfish. Perhaps there are some things one non-Earthling should never try to explain to another.

Rec Category: Five Things
Pairing: none
Categories: five things, gen, Jonas, General Hammond, futurefic, angst, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: paian
Author's Website: Fic Index
Link: Five Things for Jonas and Hammond

Why This Must Be Read: Paian writes the most wonderful Five Things - I've recced many of them before. This pair of Five Things features Jonas Quinn and George Hammond: five times Jonas wanted to go home, and five things George did when he retired.

I very much like that Paian chose to archive these two together, for the sheer poignancy of the sharp contrast of what Jonas and Hammond face. Once Jonas walked away from Kelowna in Meridian, he never really had a home again; and in the bright and gentle future that Paian lovingly paints for George, he enjoys home in every sense of the word, in both his family and his choices.

Paian offers wincing angst with the first set and then alleviates it with sweet hope in the second. In both cases, you'll find yourself enjoying every word.

Rec Category: Futurefic
Pairing: none
Categories: futurefic, gen, humor, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Vala Mal Doran, Samantha Carter, Teal'c, Cameron Mitchell, team
Warnings: apocafic, sort of, and some suggestive misleading dialogue
Author on LJ: unknown
Author's Website: To Explore the Universe and Eat Pie
Link: As Planned

Why This Must Be Read: Tallulah Rasa is one of my queens of gen fic, and this sparkling ficlet has great dialogue, superb Jack, wonderful teamy goodness, wry humor, and perfect Daniel. With the world's leaders ready to surrender, and the SGC ready to shut down, Jack and S10's SG-1 prepare to hijack the Daedalus and make a final stand for the planet... but there's something important they have to do first.

No one writes Jack and Daniel (and the rest of the team) as well as Tallulah Rasa. As Planned is guaranteed to make you smile.

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Rec Category: Futurefic
Pairing: none
Categories: futurefic, gen, Daniel Jackson, team, Jack and Daniel friendship
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: unknown
Author's Website: To Explore the Universe and Eat Pie
Link: Unfinished Business #6

Why This Must Be Read: The wonderful Tallulah Rasa calls this "unfinished business," in that it's technically the start of a larger story she never expects to finish. But this reads beautifully as a coda of its own: the quiet ending of SG-1, and the not-so-quiet unwillingness to just drift into the future.

Lovely Daniel POV (as always), warm touches of team and humor, the delightful shorthand that will always and forever exist between Jack and Daniel... and the promise of a new beginning, all over again. Read this one and smile.

"Think we can convince Teal'c and Carter to come along?"

"They're probably already packed," Daniel said.

"Are you?" Jack asked. "Because I'm about fifteen minutes away from your house."

"It's taken you twelve years," Daniel said. "What are you driving? You're making really crappy time."

Rec Category: Sha're

Pairing: none
Category: Sha're, Samantha Carter, Sam and Sha're friendship, gen, AU, drama, character study, futurefic
Warning: none
Author on LJ: annerbhp
Author's Website: Fic Master List
Link: The View From Up Here

Why This Must Be Read: Annerb treats us to a delightful, thoughtful character study of two of the strongest women in the SGC universe: Samantha Carter and Sha're of Abydos.

The AU setting, with a Sha're that survived FIAD, takes place some time in the future, in which the SGC program has gone public and SG-1 is too famous for their own comfort. Against the magnificent backdrop of a moutain cabin (sadly, not Jack's - they're too well known for that), Sha're and Sam hike to Alma's Peak and consider the paths they've taken... and how to meet the challenges of their future and the losses it might hold.

I have a not-so-secret adoration for good quality authors who recognize that Sha're is a product of a different culture, and uses those differences to celebrate her personality instead of attempting to reshape her to fit Western values. Annerb does a magnificent job of showing us, through Sam's modern POV, Sha're's strength of will, her understanding of the universe, and the cool reflection of a woman who has gone through fire, survived - and triumphed.

The View From Up Here is lovely story, with impeccable characterization for both Sam and Sha're and a lovely touch of teamy goodness on the side. Read this one and savor.

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