LINKDING

<blockquote>1. It was my mother who first discovered the fuel leak. Or at least, that’s what we thought it was then. My grandmother, who was the last of us to have set foot on Earth, had died the month before. We had gathered in the laundry atrium, which was the largest open space without ongoing maintenance work, and made such tribute as we could: this is one of the first things I remember. My mother said it felt like a new era, like we were on our own. Although of course we had been out of radio contact with Earth for many years by then. And then, so soon after: the fuel numbers didn’t quite add up. The guardian angels of the old world gone, and we were on our own. But we had excess fuel against unplanned contingencies. It was the slowest of slow leaks. No big deal.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The Quantum Fountain pulls smoothly into the space station dock.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Change is a constant, like the seasons and the tides.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When she was four he found her in the back yard, holding a brick unsteadily above her head, poised to bring it down on a small heart-shaped clock he had bought her for her bedside table. It lay face up glass sparkling in the afternoon sun. “Sorry Baba, I wanted to see what’s inside,” she said.</blockquote> ➤ sweet

<blockquote>To the Jews of Ganymede on the question of the permissibility of selling chometz to Immortals.</blockquote>

<blockquote>It was a source of consternation to certain of Earth's constitutional bodies that the original Mars mission made landfall on Christmas Eve.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A young scientist is lured away by a treacherous lover. (A Vorkosigan-influenced space AU.)</blockquote> ➤ space au of the Outlandish Knight ballad (the one where the girl drowns the man who had intended to kill her and had killed 7 girls before her)

<blockquote>Tybalt hadn't asked Benvolio to drag him into the escape pod, to a planet with too much sky, with people he's pretty sure mostly hate him.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“You'd better not be getting biohazards on my table.”</blockquote> ➤ more lunar base au

<blockquote>Miriam was elbow-deep in the water purification system when Elisheva came running. "Abba says I have to but I don't want to!"</blockquote>

<blockquote>Enjolras and Feuilly, on the moon as anywhere else, have certain preoccupations.</blockquote> ➤ lunar base au continues

<blockquote>Of martial arts both recreational and not, and of many kinds of roses.</blockquote> ➤ more lunar base au, in which Cosette learns la rose couverte!

<blockquote>Cosette lives in an asteroid with her Papa. The whole asteroid is theirs. She remembers, vaguely, when they first came there, that they were just living in one little dark cave with a rickety atmosphere plant, but every year they do something to make it better, and now she has gardens, and a domed balcony where she can see the sun, and a library, and oh! so much. They're mostly self-sufficient but every so often her papa has to take their little rock-hopper and go get the supplies they can't make themselves from Mars, and she's by herself for weeks.</blockquote>

<blockquote>A chance encounter on the Mare Cogitum.</blockquote> ➤ the latest in the lunar base au

<blockquote>GENNNNNNNN you named him Kevin and you made more moonbase and he is wearing antique space suit fashion and they have never seen fire and and and :DD CAN I HAVE SOME MORE PLZ MAAM</blockquote>

<blockquote>OH NO NOT A CHANCE TO WRITE MORE MOON BASE RIDICULOUSNESS, gosh, twist my arm, etc.  :D  Same universe as Unlocking The Orbit.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Romeo/Julia/Tybalt IN SPACE!</blockquote>

<blockquote>I'm only sorry that I didn't have the time to expand this into something vast and plotty and ridiculous, but I hope it's sufficiently ridiculous to amuse all the same!</blockquote>

<blockquote>Laurence and Temeraire, as requested, in space.</blockquote> ➤ or, in which Temeraire is a dragonship

<blockquote>Captain Baptistine and Engineer Magloire of the starship Myriel pick up an escape pod with a terrified refugee.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The hovercraft had never really been in tip-top shape; no matter how many times he’d sent it in to get fixed, it still sputtered, coughed up smoke, and trailed pollution through the Mars dome. So perhaps, Fauchelevant thought in a delirious haze, this was its revenge for all the times he’d kicked it and yelled at it and wished it was a newer model. Or perhaps, as the gallant Captain Madeleine shouldered his way through the wreckage and grasped Fauchelevent by the wrist and waist, this was its way of saying you deserve something better in your life. </blockquote> ➤ three-sentence fic so the bit I quoted is the entirety of it. DON'T I WISH THERE WERE MORE THOUGH

<blockquote>It’s traditional “Write random AUs instead of your nano story” time here at chez melannen. So, to inspire Sath, here is the first 1000 words of the Les Mis SF AU-Fusion-Crossover that has been haunting me since I first got into Les Mis fandom. ENJOY. I feel like this one truly captures the spirit of Les Mis canon.</blockquote> ➤ or: the space au where Marius has been in stasis for a few hundred thousand years and when he's revived all his friends are dead

<blockquote>Mulan in space.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Exactly what it says on the tin.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Most of the Jovian satellites are contemptuous of the dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon, but Himalia secretly envies them their co-orbital relationship.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Julius Caesar, emissary from Rome, brings wine to Nicomedes of Bithynia. In spaaaaaaaace!</blockquote>

<blockquote>Disney Princesses IN SPACE. Aka "the one where Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather move from a cottage to a spaceship and go around rescuing various Disney Princesses from their bad situations at the beginnings of their movies". Specifically, at the moment, Cinderella.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When the people of the Milky Way Galaxy first heard that God's Final Message to His Creation was being displayed, in thirty-foot-high letters of fire on top of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains in the land of Sevorbeupstry on the Planet Preliumtarn, third out from the sun Zarss in Galactic Sector QQ7 ActiveJ Gamma, the Jews of the Galaxy were among the first to seek it out.</blockquote>