[Fic] "The Transient and the Eternal: Touch" -- Angel Sanctuary; SFBC orders

I'm doing thirtyforthree again, this time for Kira Sakuya/Mudo Setsuna/Mudo Sara from Kaori Yuki's Angel Sanctuary. There will be spoilers in nearly every theme -- given the characters, it's nearly impossible to avoid them! -- and a lot of potentially objectionable content. This is because the source manga has a lot of potentially objectionable content. If incest squicks you, or you know you'll be bothered by some extremely strange and often negative interpretations of Judeo-Christian theology, you probably won't want to read any of these stories.

With that said...

Theme: #30 - Touch
Warnings: spoilers
Notes: This ficlet is set pre-manga.

( The Transient and the Eternal: Touch )

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Cross-posted here on thirtyforthree.

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All other pieces of "The Transient and the Eternal" can be found here, via tags.

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Back in real life, I received a package from the Science Fiction Book Club on Monday. I was a little surprised, because I hadn't ordered anything recently, and I am scrupulous about responding to their featured selections (those are a sort of 'if you don't explicitly tell us NOT to send these books, you're buying them by default' deal).

It turns out they had sent me two books I never ordered. So I wrote an explanatory letter, resealed the box, and sent it back today. Unfortunately, because I'd opened the box, I had to pay return shipping charges at the post office. I really hope the SFBC does the polite thing and deducts that cost from my account as well as removing the original bill for the books and the shipping and handling charges.

This is actually only the third time since 1997 that the SFBC has screwed up anything with my account or my orders, and one of those two prior incidents may actually have been my fault -- I was going on vacation and might well have accidentally ordered the same book twice in the confusion. It's just very annoying when things like this happen, and I am not particularly pleased that I am paying for their mistake.

Ah well. Such is life.

[Meme] Significant SF/F novels, 1953-2006

Gakked from willowgreen: The most significant SF/F novels from 1953-2006 according to Time.

Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk (*) beside the ones you loved.

I almost never hate a book -- even if I dislike them, I usually find something of redeeming value to counteract my main reaction, and besides, hating things is such a waste of energy -- so instead of striking things out, I've just added lots of comments. :-)

( Significant SF/F novels, 1953-2006 )

[Meme] Significant SF/F novels, 1953-2006

Gakked from willowgreen: The most significant SF/F novels from 1953-2006 according to Time.

Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk (*) beside the ones you loved.

I almost never hate a book -- even if I dislike them, I usually find something of redeeming value to counteract my main reaction, and besides, hating things is such a waste of energy -- so instead of striking things out, I've just added lots of comments. :-)

( Significant SF/F novels, 1953-2006 )