52. "RE: UF's 25th anniversary..."
In response to message #49
>>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."