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[labellementeuse]

Okay, so good things about tonight (or at least, anticipated things.)
7:30 pm Joey
8:00 pm Scrubs
8:30 pm Lost

(So Joey will be funny rubbish, Scrubs will be good, Lost... I don't know. I know a LOT of people who are raving about it. So... well, we'll see. :P) Oh yeah, Lucy, DON'T FORGET LOST tonight (She totally will. I have to ring her.)

Bad thing about tonight:

So I was having this conversation with gabbysun about mpreg, how creepy and badfic it is, and she asked who could have possibly thought of it. And I was going to say "Obviously someone TOTALLY DERANGED" (I'm sorry. Mpreg creeps me right out of my skin and all the way to Auckland. *shudders*) BUT THEN I REMEMBERED. There is a really, really good, very vivid and striking science fiction short story that I have read. It was by one of the masters- probably Asimov or Bradbury, but I'll take side bets on LeGuin and anyone else you feel like- and it's about a woman- alien- spider- who sleeps with men and leaves them pregnant. I suspect this to be the origins of mpreg except I can't prove it because that's ALL I can remember. I'm going nuts, people. So yeah, help me. Old-ish story, and the title may- stress that may- have been "Black Widow." Quite vivid physical detail of the pregnancies, disturbing but good. I remember it very well except, of course, for the author, title and collection bits. *eyeroll* So help? Please? f-list?

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[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

BTW, you're thinking of the Anne McCaffrey story, in the collection Get Off The Unicorn. Or if you're not, there are two stories exactly the same out there. You're right, it was good - her random short sci-fi stories are excellent, better than a lot of her novels.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* Are you SURE?

Huh.

Fine then. It was still really good.

[megaffe.livejournal.com]

you definatly are thinking of McCaffery - I didn't think it was very god though, all creepy about space-spiders *shudders*