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NEW TG: Hell Hath No Fury (Femdom, genetic mutation)
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(c) Darkside@nym.alias.net 1997.
Introduction from Darkside.
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This is the cumulation of about a years worth of effort on my part.
Nine months planning the whole thing out and three months actual
writing. Infinite thanks must go to Vickie Tern whose
patient re-reading and suggesting made this, my first story what it is.
More thanks must go to Stephanie(Stephanie@nym.alias.net) for the superb
proofing work she did on Fury II. Whilst I think of it, a thank you should
also go to Celeste for her free and excellent proofing service. Thanks
should also go to Nostromo and Sapphire(http://www1.mhv.net/sapphire)
for agreeing to store this tome on thier superb websites. I owe both of
them a big thank you.
You are welcome to do to this what you will, repost it,store it,print it
etc etc. The only thing you are NOT allowed to do is charge people
money for reading it (unless you want to publish it, then we'll talk).
The only price I exact for this story is that you let me know you've
read it and what you thought of it (even if you think it's mindless pap).
The original notes as posted to USENET are printed at the end of the story.
A word From Vickie Tern without who's help I would have stopped at
Fury I and never continued on.
Introduction by Vickie Tern
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This is one of the more remarkable productions, I think, of net fiction in
general and TG fiction in particular. It's an ambitious full-scale novel,
with a complex plot, the narrative evolving for the reader out of various
characters' distinctive points of view -- their so-called "first person"
narratives. These commentaries and reports overlap and conflict with each
other, leaving the reader to construct what is *really* happening as if the
story were a gigantic mosaic made up of many pieces, each partial, some
bewildered, many just plain wrong. Yet while individual characters may be
variously misled and the reader with them, the story is never really
confusing. Gradually and inexorably, as with any good
detective-fantasy-mystery story, the truth emerges.
The original deceptions are all part of a deliberate plot schemed by a
brilliant woman scientist overwhelmed by a desire to avenge herself on a
fiance who has spurned her, and they are multiplied by other characters with
schemes of their own. They're further multiplied because the scientist has
found ways to alter human beings, to transform them physically -- but not
mentally -- into replicas of each other, so characters may not be perfectly
certain, at a given moment, whether the person with them is an original or a
more malevolent facsimile. This makes for considerable irony and suspense, a
story taking place in a world of mirror images where nothing may be what it
seems. Yet for the reader, what is happening is always clear - if not
accurate -- and how a character feels and thinks about it is always what the
reader knows first of all. So there's a considerable range of experience
explored here, and characters who vary from bright and brassy to solemn and
pompous. There is less eroticism than one might expect, but the story does
crucially involve transgendered transformations and the pointed revenge of a
woman scorned in love, so readers of A.S.S. won't feel disappointed. In
short, in plain language, for a variety of reasons this is a good read.
Most extraordinary perhaps is that this novel is a first production of a new
and talented writer, one with an special gift for dialogue that sounds spoken
by real people and narrative that remains economical -- there is nothing
arbitrary or dithering, padded or merely amusing filling out the novel's
length. It's long because it needs to be.
And it's entirely the author's. At early stages I advised on routine matters
like narrative format, queried conceivable contradictions, and as the story
developed and his narrative strategy came clear, provided early comment. The
novel's intricate plan was hatched entirely inside the author's imagination
from the start, so there was little for me to do as various parts were
written other than to encourage him to keep going, announce what I thought
was happening and be told "No, wait, you'll see!" What *was* happening
then always turned out to be both more surprising and yet more inevitable
than I'd thought. That made it a fun read too.
So, this is an intricate narrative involving much deception and
double-dealing, told by characters who don't themselves necessarily know what
is really happening as they speak. It is best enjoyed by being read in the
order intended, if at all possible with no episodes skipped. I suggest you
assemble it first, then plunge into its dark transmogrifications.
Part One is called "Hell Hath No Fury" and totals altogether about 124k. It
sets out the first baffling consequence of the diabolical plot, as it is
experienced by the main characters.
Part Two is called "The Birth of Nemesis" and is about 98k. It presents some
of the antecedent action to Part One, as a "Prequel," making clearer that
things in Part One were not at all what they seemed (nor even some things in
Part Two). Mostly it explains how things in Part One came to pass.
Part Three is called "Kat O' Nine Tales" and is nearly 500k long. It
continues the story from where Parts One and Two left it, and is told
altogether from the alternating points of view of each of the participants.
By the end of Part Three you will finally know what has *really* been
happening in Parts One and Two -- and Three -- and its outcome.
And you will have read an absorbing sci-fi-mystery-suspense-thriller with
some memorable moments. The author (Darkside@nym.alias.net) already has
another novel in mind, and with the right encouragement will share it with
us. The right encouragement comes in the form of e-mail letting him know
what you really think of this. He can handle and learn from negative
comment, so don't stint. Of course, praise is never inappropriate. :-)
V.T.
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Have You Missed a Part?. The complete version of 'Hell Hath No Fury'
Can be found at http://www.nifty.org/nifty/transgender under Magic-SciFi
or Sapphire's Excellent website at http://www1.mhv.net/sapphire or
http://www1.mhv.net/sapphire/zip/furytril.zip to go right to it.
Comments etc should be directed to darkside@nym.alias.net
Vickie Tern@AOL.COM
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