Returning once again
After many failed starts I’m starting again
I’m relaunching JohnHattaway.com and for people redirected here from many other URLs, yes I own those too.
My plan is, for now, to post some of my old writing: fiction, poetry, essays, opinions, and parenting and autism content.
I will start with the parts to a piece I wrote about ten years ago: Eli Ascending, a Stargate Universe fanfic. It’s not complete and to be honest it may never be complete.
When Syfy and MGM canceled Universe, or SGU, I was frustrated. For me, at the time, this was perfect storytelling. I loved the show more than I’d lived SG1 or the original Stargate movie. And I was never a fan of Stargate: Atlantis. I’ll explain why another time.
With Eli and Colonel Young and Rush and so much potential, Destiny - the starship, I felt there was so much to be explored and it followed that if the Ancients had planned enough to launch this scout ship and prepare for people to gate in, they’d prepared for damage, for the very problems the crew were going to face.
Well, maybe not those exact problems. But things like the ship being in need of repair. Aliens attacking. The seed ships purposes and eventual outcomes. Others boarding Destiny and working toward the same goals as Rush et al.
Destiny had a bigger story and a more robust constitution and toward that end, I felt there needed to be something that at the very least got the crew from one galaxy across the divide into the next without killing Eli and without losing years of their lives.
Eli Ascending is the beginning of my attempt to answer those questions.
Stick around for those posts to come and others. As it says up top: Essays, Fiction, and Observations from the Homefront.