The Three Laws of Arthur C. Clarke (and corollaries thereof) by Sophonisba (Amnesty 2006)

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-title- The Three Laws of Arthur C. Clarke (and corollaries thereof)
-author- Sophonisba, saphanibaal
-challenges- "This is not happening," First Contact
-warnings- General audiences. Mild scatological references. Third-person omniscient. Attempt to visually distinguish homographic heterophones. Takes place early in first season.
-characters- Ensemble; AR-1-centric
-disclaimer- The central plot device, not to mention many of the works referenced within, are of course the creation of the late great T. S. Geisel, long and justly famed as purveyor of the special crack. Also referenced are books by Eleanor Cameron and Armstrong Sperry. Two phrases of narration have been lifted from Maurice Sendak and (IIRC) Eric Flint, respectively. The corollaries to Clarke's Laws have been attributed to different people at different times, so I'm not sure whom to credit for those.
-spoilers- ..."Rising"?
-word count- 7829
-summary- They never did figure out what had caused it; it went down in the annals of Atlantis as "one of those things."

The Three Laws of Arthur C. Clarke (and corollaries thereof)

-1- When a distinguished [but elderly] scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
-2- The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
-3- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
( -- Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology; any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced; any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration; any sufficiently advanced anything is indistinguishable from utter nonsense. (Especially if it is sufficiently advanced nonsense to begin with.) )

A Civil Contract, by Sophonisba (Culture Clash/Harlequin Challenge|Amnesty 2006)

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-title- A Civil Contract
-author- Sophonisba (saphanibaal)
-challenges- Culture Clash challenge, Harlequin challenge
-warnings- Gen. One of the oldest schlocky romance plots EVAR, and I manage to come up with a gen interpretation. Feel free to imagine all the future bodice-ripping sex you like, though. Also contains my assumption as to why nearly everyone in the galaxy can understand each other.
-characters- Sheppard, Teyla
-disclaimer- If I owned them, I'd treat them right. It's fairly obvious from the passive contrapositive that ~p is true. The First Law of Trade is paraphrased from something the Witchwoman of the Worlds says in CLAMP's Interholic tankoubon #1.
-spoilers- "Rising" and "Hide and Seek"; takes place just before or concurrent with the first scene of the latter. There is also a mention of the name of a people from a later episode as people-Teyla-knows-of; I don't think that in itself is enough to count as a spoiler.
-word count- 2196
-summary- In a market culture, to be given largesse is shameful; in a gift culture, to fail to return a gift is shaming. Teyla does not choose to let her people be shamed.

( Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, / And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. )

written on the body by justbreathe80 (body modification challenge/amnesty 2006 challenge)

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Title: written on the body
Author: justbreathe80
Pairing(s): Well, this is Ronon. And various others. Ronon/M, Ronon/F, shades of OT4
Rating: R
Spoilers: For "The Runner" and "Sateda"
Summary: He bit down, hard, on his bottom lip, tasting blood, when the needle pierced his skin, up high on his shoulder.
Word Count: 2463
Author's notes: I've been ruminating on this for WEEKS, and I'm so glad I finally got to write it. Many, MANY thanks to strangecobwebs and misspamela for the WONDERFUL betas! *kisses to you both*

( written on the body )