"He tasted a moment of fire - illogical, un-vulcan anger"

[lotesse]

I'm doing a workup of Camille Bacon-Smith's Enterprising Women for school - seriously, would you believe I drew it out of a hat? In a general gender-studies course not otherwise affiliated with fan studies? - but anyway, her interpretation of Della Van Hise's Trek tie-in novel Killing Time is giving me all kinds of happy nostalgia. I need to dig up an unexpurgated copy - the one I had as a kid was bowdlerized, but god I loved it anyway. I actually didn't know at the time that she was fen - I just knew that her book was actually, you know, hot. But it's really the exact kind of AU scenario that's made to make me happy.

I have to say, though - I don't miss the analog days. They were a crap time to be a kid. It wasn't the worst age-based oppression I ever experienced - not being able to vote in 2000 was torturous - but my childish lack of ability to get what I wanted rankled like stinging nettles.