(As usual, this review can also be found at my Net-fic reviews page http://www.katspace.com/reviews/netfic)

Limbo by Sheila Paulson venkie@aol.com at http://members.aol.com/Venkie/rgb/rgb.htm

This story has a number of things in it which would send many a fan running for the delete key even before they'd tried to read the story. It has an original female protagonist. It's set in the 20th Century. It's told in first-person. And almost the only other Blake's 7 character in the story is Avon. But before you start screaming "Mary-Sue! Mary-Sue! Kill! Kill! Kill!" let me tell you the things which rescue this story from Mary-Sue-dom. Firstly, I doubt very much that Sheila Paulson is a widow living in Iowa. And the protagonist certainly isn't Mz. Perfect. But more importantly, this story works because of the thematic resonance set up between the protagonist and Avon, both being people who've shut out the world because of the pain of loss. Well, *I* think it works. And it's fun to see the reaction of Avon to things in the 20th Century. Some people may still find it too much of a wishlist of all the things one could say to Avon to try to make it right. But, hey, this is Sheila Paulson! Happy endings are her middle name.

So... what do *you* think?

Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Avon: Leave him alone in future. Tarrant: Or? Avon: Do you want me to threaten you? Tarrant: Why not? I haven't had a good laugh in ages. Avon: Sensible. You could die laughing. (Blake's 7: City at the Edge of the World [C6])