"It's a Cook Book!" by othercat

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Title: It's a Cookbook!
Author: OtherCat
Rating: PG
Spoilers: N/A
Summary: Adventures in seperating fact from fiction

From: RhodaYazi@atlantis.net
To: RMcKay@atlantis.net
FW: [science department]
Subject: It's a Cookbook!

I'd like to report a few mistranslations/interpretations in the ongoing database translation project. Since we still aren't clear on how the Ancients organized the database, a large number of "genre fiction" documents have been mixed in at seeming random with poetry, religion, scientific research papers and documentaries on a wide variety of subjects. (It reminds me a lot of my bookcase in college, in fact.)

So far, we've found out that:

--_Roads of Light_ is a work of "historical fiction." Not an actual biography of the inventor(s) of the stargate.

--_Shadow Mazes_ is not a religious text, it's more like the Silmarillion.

--_The Stone, The Star, The Seed_ is a collection of science fiction stories, not a science journal.

--_The Ruminations of Pi_ is the Ancient equivalent of "Flatland"

--_Hedge of Swords_ is a work of military sf. (Which should have been obvious, but Benson was positive it was a Ancient translation of a Asgardian military philosophy text.)

--The entire "Three Black Stones" section is a forum for what appears to be fanfiction and debate for a popular series of books. The same goes for "Arch of Heaven" "Countless Stars," "Entropy" and "Heroic Visions"

We should have something resembling a "rule of thumb" for identifying and sorting fiction from nonfiction in a couple days. I've spoken with the people responsible for the mistakes and have been assured they'll pay more attention to what they're reading in the future.

Dr. Rhoda Yazi

Comments

[rokeon.livejournal.com]

Perfect subject line. I wish I could have seen Rodney reading the sci-fi collection, I really do.

Ancient fanfic!

[astolat]

Hee, fun! And adminly PS: please edit to cut-tag the story!

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[yin-again.livejournal.com]

--_Shadow Mazes_ is not a religious text, it's more like the Silmarillion.

Heeee! This is really cute!

[rogue-planet.livejournal.com]

That's great! *giggles* I would love to read thise books, if only they were real.

[dr-dredd.livejournal.com]

I would definitely love to see Rodney reading fanfiction. Probably critique all the authors' techniques and mutter about how he could do better!

[(Anonymous)]

I love the concept! It does make you wonder about how much of the database would be the Ancient's fiction. And the expedition members having no clue.

[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I like this! :)

[paranoidangel]

That's funny. I wonder what they came up with as fact from the fiction books?

[cynicalcylon.livejournal.com]

"The entire "Three Black Stones" section is a forum for what appears to be fanfiction and debate for a popular series of books."

Ancient FanFic *sniggers*
Wonder how much of it was slash ;)

[laceymcbain.livejournal.com]

*G* Ancient fan fiction. Cool.

[jissa.livejournal.com]

Hee! This was really cute! . . . Now I'm really curious about this Ancient Fanfiction. 8D

[wychwood]

Ahaha. Great stuff :)

[hajimebassaidai.livejournal.com]

Love the idea of someone going through the Ancient equivalent of a bookcase and trying to sort it all out!