NEW: DS9 Oswiecim 0/42 [PG-13 Violence]
Gabrielle Lawson
Title: Oswiecim
Author: Gabrielle Lawson (gla...@gwu.edu)
Series: DS9
Part: NEW 0/42
Rating: [PG-13] (Violence)
Codes:
STAR TREK
Deep Space Nine
OSWIECIM
A story by Gabrielle Lawson
based on the Viacom/Paramount television series
STAR TREK
Deep Space Nine
Disclaimer: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and all the characters
and settings thereof, are the property of Paramount Pictures.
However, the situation and all new characters in this novel are
completely of my own creation and should not be copied without
my permission. Any resemblance to any persons living or deceased
are unintended--unless they gave me permission.
Summary: A Klingon ship with Cardassian registry runs at the
station and then veers off toward Earth. Just as the ship
nears Earth, it changes course and heads right for the sun: a trip
that takes it four centuries into the darkest times of our past.
The *Defiant,* must insure the timeline is secure and Dr. Bashir
must try to survive Oswiecim.
This story may be archived. Also anyone who wants a better
copy (meaning, not ascii) can e-mail me with their specific
word processor format and I'll send it along. It will also
be available via printed fanzine printed by me for those who
prefer to read long stories on paper. E-mail me for
details and/or I'll let you know as soon as I figure out the
cost of production.
I love feedback. I think this has already had a pretty thorough
going-over editorially, but I welcome those comments as well. I
don't deal well with flames, but you can disagree with my story
nicely and I won't break. I absolutely live for the good stuff
though. So please, let me know if you love the story.
Acknowledgments
I wish to thank first my translators. Dominika Trudgett and
occasionally her mother, put up with me and medical school for over
a year while I wrote this story. All the Polish in this story is
because of her. Christian Strauf tirelessly e-mailed German
translations to me from his university in Munster, Germany. And
Petr Sidlof provided much needed assistance when my knowledge of
Czech grew inadequate for the project at hand. The French and
English are my own and I take full responsibility for any mistakes
or typos in either one. Also thanks to Tatjana Svizensky who helped
me with the German when Christian was on vacation.
Secondly I must thank my test readers. Valerie Shearer has
enthusiastically looked forward to every chapter I sent her. She
also helped me to find errors and clarify sections of the story. Jo
Burgess (as her e-mail address references her) has also read every
line and valiantly searched for typos. She's also tried really hard
to break me of my habit of starting sentences with "and." You'll see
that she was not entirely successful. :-) Scott Morningstar has also
been very helpful, and also understanding. And I thank him for not
visiting and so giving me the time to write. I'm done now, Scott.
You can visit again! Or even just e-mail.
There have been a few other readers over the year this story
has been initially completed and I don't want them to feel left out.
And lastly I thank Gene Roddenberry, for thinking up Trek in
the first place; Paramount Pictures for putting it back on the air so
that a younger generation could be introduced to this phenomenon that
is Trek; the producers and writers of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, for
putting together a wonderful show week after week; and of course, Siddig
El Fadil, for without his portrayal to bring Dr. Julian Bashir to life,
I would never have starting writing science fiction in the first place.
Dekuji! Merci! Danke! Dziekuje!
A note on ascii before we begin: You can't show German, Czech, French
and Polish correctly in ascii. This is why I suggest e-mailing me for
a copy as attachments to e-mail. I prefer the languages to be shown
as they really are. But for purposes of posting to this newsgroup,
I've had to de-accent, un-umlaut, dis-haczek, and otherwise make normal
all accents and special characters. Most just changed to their
unaccented
letter. A a-umlaut becomes an a. But there were two exceptions:
An S-set (don't yell at me in German if I wrote that wrong) is now B
since
it looks rather like a B anyway. And the C-haczek is now "CZ" just
to set it apart from the C in Czech.
And finally, a note on length of parts. I've broken this 17 chapter
story
into 42 parts for posting to asc. I've tried to break them at scene
breaks
and chapter breaks. This leaves some less than 25K (the smallest is
13K) and some larger than 25K (the largest is 33K). I'm sorry if you're
reader can't handle the longer ones. Remember, I'm happy to e-mail
parts or the whole story.
That's it. You may now begin reading!
--
--Gabrielle
I'd much rather be writing!
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/2460
Pasi Partanen
>Summary: A Klingon ship with Cardassian registry runs at the
>station and then veers off toward Earth. Just as the ship
>nears Earth, it changes course and heads right for the sun: a trip
>that takes it four centuries into the darkest times of our past.
>The *Defiant,* must insure the timeline is secure and Dr. Bashir
>must try to survive Oswiecim.
Dear Gabrielle, what can I say?
Simply the best DS9-story I have ever read.
So dark, detailed, historically accurate. I learned many
new things etc. Poor Bashir, no man shouldn't have to
face so much angst.
Absolutely wonderful story, thank you for this piece of work.
Usually long stories are the best ones.
What's your next project?
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Gabrielle Lawson
Pasi Partanen wrote:
> Dear Gabrielle, what can I say?
>
> Simply the best DS9-story I have ever read.
That sounds pretty good to me. :-) Thank you.
> So dark, detailed, historically accurate. I learned many
> new things etc. Poor Bashir, no man shouldn't have to
> face so much angst.
Those are good, too. I'm a historian at heart (except thatI hate
research). Got my BA in History, but not my
MA (getting that in Museum Studies). So getting the
history as right as I could was very important to me. I put
Bashir on an actual transport from an actual ghetto on an
actual day. That you say you learned many things means
more to me than all the kudos. Thanks again.
> Absolutely wonderful story, thank you for this piece of work.
> Usually long stories are the best ones.
You're welcome.
> What's your next project?
I've got two in the works right now. One was inspired by my Grandmother's
deathdue to Alzheimers and my Grandfather's recent diagnosis of Parkinsons.
Bashir will
lose his mind (not his sanity). It's called Pain of Memory, and I've got
perhaps a
third of it done at just over 100 pages.
The second ties into that one, but is more a sequel to the canon-compatible
parts
of If It's Not One Thing.... Bashir and Kira are murdered in the first
three pages. Then
the Gidari show up. It's called Honored, and don't worry, we haven't seen
the last
of Kira and Bashir.
I really need to wait and finish the second one after the first one, but
I've got a
really good start on it already at around 50 pages and lots of ideas for
scenes.
s11...@student.gu.edu.au
wrote:
>
>
Oswiecim was by far one of the most compelling DS9 or WWII stories I
have ever read. (including the pocket books - although that's not
saying much) and It was the strongest Concentration camp story I've
read (probably because of being set - first person) Most of the other
books I've read usually contained fragmentry accounts of several dozen
survivors plus pages of disspassionate figures and discussions of the
political reasons for the occurence. (I dunno maybe I've read the
wrong books) It ranks up there with Anne Frank as a puncher -
although your story was 'fiction' it brought out the same feelings for
me.
As someone who has been through a similar situation of a much, much ,
much, much lesser magnitude I can relate to some of what was happening
to Bashir.
This really brought it home
If you are a professional writer - where can I buy your books. If you
are not - you should be!
Hope to see you on the shelves one day. I put your story into my
personal archive.
Raphael Yervantian
Gabrielle Lawson
s11...@student.gu.edu.au wrote:
> Oswiecim was by far one of the most compelling DS9 or WWII stories I
> have ever read. (including the pocket books - although that's not
> saying much) and It was the strongest Concentration camp story I've
> read (probably because of being set - first person) Most of the other
> books I've read usually contained fragmentry accounts of several dozen
> survivors plus pages of disspassionate figures and discussions of the
> political reasons for the occurence. (I dunno maybe I've read the
> wrong books) It ranks up there with Anne Frank as a puncher -
> although your story was 'fiction' it brought out the same feelings for
> me.
Wow. What more can I say? You honor me.
> As someone who has been through a similar situation of a much, much ,
> much, much lesser magnitude I can relate to some of what was happening
> to Bashir.
I'm sorry to hear that. I can't imagine that sort of suffering no matter
how muchI study it.
> This really brought it home
>
> If you are a professional writer - where can I buy your books. If you
> are not - you should be!
I'm not, unfortunately. And thank you for your kind words. Perhaps you
shouldtell John Ordover that. ;-)
> Hope to see you on the shelves one day. I put your story into my
> personal archive.
Thank you. I hope to see my name up there one day too.