>>UF & EPU has a quality to it that other FanFics don't. The team has
>>put in the work to make the disparate Sci-Fi & Fantasy series into a
>>pretty amazing cohesive universe. Most of it makes sense without
>>getting bogged down into "How" everything works.
>
>That ability to meld things is a core element of what I tell people
>who are interested in UF. Gryphon has a knack of writing things in a
>way that has you go "well, of course Gil Grissom and Barry Allen are
>co-workers," or "Hercule Poirot is a Jedi and has Hermione Granger as
>a Padawan? yep, that works."
>
>Mind you, I tend to open with "it's the kind of setting where, for a
>writing and practice retreat, Houkago Tea Time travels by sky bison to
>the vacation home of a Norse god and are greeted by the battleship
>Yamato in a maid's dress." (Not my best record scratch intro to a
>fic, but it's hard to top simply saying "Fallout Equestria" and
>bluescreening someone's brain.)

My personal top example for this is still "yes of course Thrawn is a Gamilon."