stargate: atlantis recs G-N
Recommendations for slash, het and mixed fics. Mostly slash.
This will be an updated recs list. As I find the stories, they'll be listed here.
Genius (07/26/05)
Author: Sandy
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated NC-17
Other: 3275 words
Summary: Things heat up between McKay and Sheppard when they get trapped by a blizzard
Read: Genius
Good For What Ails You (08/04/05)
Author: Giddygeek
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Author Note: For the 38 minute challenge (although I did go over by a couple minutes. And went past the deadline. And also it's for someone's birthday. Still. Close enough!
Summary: Teyla offers Rodney some Athosian allergy medicine.
Read: Good For What Ails You
Got Milk? (10/25/05)
Author: Moonglow11066
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: 760 words
Other: rated PG-13
Summary: response to the Food Challenge at
Read: Got Milk?
Harlequin Atlantis (09/08/06)
Author: Pookaseraph
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: 4913 words
Other: rated PG PG-13ish
Spoilers: Duet, Trinity
Summary: Someone on Atlantis has been writing Harlequin novels.
A/N: First post, first SG:A fic, not my first fic but close to it. Thanks to my sister for betaing. Inspired by Lenkti's 'Desire in the Desert' cover and astolat's comment there in. They can feel free to disown the resulting madness. Another note on episodes, Martin Gero mentioned Trinity coming before Condemned, I like this, I think it makes sense and I've run with it.
Read: Harlequin Atlantis
Hero Worship (07/09/05)
Author: Jalabert
Pairing: Ford/Sheppard
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated NC-17
Other: 32,616 words
Summary: John Sheppard has a crush on his second in command. It's mutual, but Ford keeps his feet on the ground and Sheppard's head in the clouds.
Read: Hero Worship
He's Having Her Baby! (09/10/06)
Author: Pru
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated R
Other: has a sequel, "He's Having His Baby!"
Summary: Rodney steps up.
This one totally cracked me up.
Read: He's Having Her Baby!
He's Having His Baby! (09/10/06)
Author: Pru
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated NC-17
Other: sequel to "He's Having Her Baby!"
Summary: Babies had better be totally fucking awesome, John thinks dismally, because not even sex is worth this shit.
Read: He's Having His Baby!
Hindsight (08/06/05)
Author: Rageprufrock
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: AU where John is living a different life and meets Rodney.
Summary: John works for the FBI, which is how he met Rodney for the first time. Rodney is Rodney in all his snarky assholic glory. Then reality hits.
Finally, it is completed! Go, read, make merry... la la lalala!
Read: Hindsight
Hitched (08/16/05)
Author: ForCryinOutLoud
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: Rated NC-17
Summary: Yeah, I got that--you stole my punch and got us hitched.
Read: Hitched
The Hostage Major (09/08/07)
Author: Frostfire
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Other: Rated NC-17
Notes: Okay. This is 15,625 words of CRACK with a totally cop-out title and a plot stolen from four lines of plot summary for this Harlequin novel. (Note: don't click on that if you don't want to be--*snort*--spoiled! *dies laughing*) I apologize for the title, but if I hadn't picked a title and posted this, I would have kept editing it, and every time I edited it, it grew. (It's aliiiive...)
Read: Part One, Two
How Not To Make A Light Bulb (07/31/05)
Author: Leah K
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated NC-17
Other: 40 kb
Other: Written before Season 2, AU from Seige II. Thanks to
Summary: Sometimes it takes a couple tries to get things right.
I really liked this story because it showed how screwed up Sheppard's mind is. Plus, porn, which is always good.
Read: How Not To Make A Light Bulb
Hush (10/26/05)
Author: Anatolia1
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay, Others
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated PG
Summary: Rodney has been silenced.
This is an oddly beautiful story, moving in its tragedy, yet uplifting in a strange way.
Read: Hush
Ice Cream and the Art of Lying (09/08/06)
Author: J M Torres
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated PG-13
Other: 2703 words
Read: Ice Cream and the Art of Lying
Ides (10/26/05)
Author: Meg
Pairing: Beckett/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated PG-13
Spoilers: "The Storm," "The Eye," "Hot Zone," "Defiant One," "Before I Sleep."
Summary: Requested by
Carson helps someone and is punished for it.
Read: Ides
Impossibilium (09/10/06)
Author: canadian_snoopy
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated R
Other: 14391 words
Summary: Atlantis had gotten John used to doing three impossible things before breakfast; so really, this shouldn't have been nearly as big a surprise as it was.
Read: Impossibilium
Instantaneous (09/10/06)
Author: Cimorene
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated NC-17
Summary: "God, life is so unfair. I find what appears to be the sole personal teleportation device in the city, it decides it likes you, and what do you do with it? Save the city with a stunning feat of bravery and tactical prowess? No. You don't even bring me coffee--you use it to increase your repertoire of juvenile humour with a prank that three-year-olds have been carrying off successfully without teleportation probably for centuries."
Read: Instantaneous
Instructional (10/26/05)
Author: Jenn
Genre: GEN
Other: rated PG-13
Summary: The learning curve can be a little rough.
Read: Instructional Part One, Part Two
Intersections (07/14/05)
Author: Kaneko
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: 157 kb
Summary: Rodney's Antarctica is a lot like Siberia in that it's full of scientists who work 16-hour days and bathe once a week (twice when they're feeling social).
Read: Intersections
Intervals of Thirds (09/08/06)
Author: Commodore Norrington
Pairing: none
Genre: GEN
Summary: One day, a boy named Rodney showed up at my door. What could I do with him? I was just a piano teacher.
This one made me incredibly sad when I read it. Don't ask me to explain. I'm weird.
Read: Intervals of Thirds
In the Shadows (10/26/05)
Author: Burningchaos
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated Teen
Summary: This is for the worst-case scenario Challenge. Stalking.
Read: In the Shadows
Intimates (10/25/05)
Author: James
Pairing: Rodney/various
Genre: SLASH
Other: fantasy kink fic
Summary: Rodney has a fantasy
Read: Intimates
Just Like It Says On The Bottle (08/15/05)
Author: Claire
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated R
Other: 17 kb
Summary: It's difficult to argue with a drunk person who wants to have sex with you
Read: Just Like It Says On The Bottle
Killing Time (07/18/05)
Author: Shade
Pairing: McKay/Beckett
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated PG-13
Summary: Time is what you make it, at least if you're Rodney McKay.
Read: Killing Time
La Femme McKay (07/10/05)
Author: Kharessa Bloodrose
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay, Zelenka/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated R
Author’s Notes: This is a funfic that I’d considered writing before, but had always decided was too silly to be worth the time. After a late night conversation with Spubba a couple of weeks ago, I decided otherwise.
Summary: Dr. McKay has a transforming experience due to an accident with an alien plot device. Herein you will find no pregnancy of any kind.
Feeding my warped desire for gender-bender fics.
Read: La Femme McKay One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven
Legion the Things I Would Give to Oblivion (07/08/05)
Author: Auburn
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: Post-Siege III AU, slight SG-1 crossover
Warning: Character Deaths, Threesome, Slash
Other: 11,631 words, 76 KB
Other: rated Mature
Summary: Spiraling down. There are a lot of Wraith and the Daedalus is just one ship.
A going home fic that isn't as happy as it should be.
Read: Legion the Things I Would Give to Oblivion
The Lending Library (10/26/05)
Author: Gale
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Summary: Naturally, when several hundred people moved to another galaxy, they brought porn.
Read: The Lending Library
Lifeline (08/16/05)
Author: Jalabert
Pairing: Sheppard/Ford
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated PG
Other: 26 kb
Spoilers: Rising part 1, Rising part 2, Hide and Seek, Thirty Eight Minutes, Suspicion
Summary: "Whatever gets you through the night is all right..." - John Lennon
bed comfort
Read: Lifeline
Like, Not Forever (10/25/05)
Author: Lady DarkAngel
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated PG
Other: 4 kb
Summary: Rodney muses on forever and his John.
Read: Like, Not Forever
Long Way To Fall (07/29/05)
Author: sprat
Pairing: Sheppard/Other, Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: 4000 words or thereabouts
Summary: While "hanging around," John comes to a sudden realization and blurts out the truth to everyone.
Read: Long Way To Fall
Looking Glass (07/31/05)
Author: Shalott
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: explicit
Other: 2,709 words
Summary: Answer to the Skirt Challenge on
Read: Looking Glass
The Looking Glass (10/25/05)
Author: Chelle
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated PG-13
Other: 35 kb
Summary: Warm. Rodney shifted a little. Warm was good.
Read: The Looking Glass
Magic Marker (10/25/05)
Author: TrinityofOne
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated PG-13
Other 1700 words
Summary: John's eyes were wide with horror. "You're telling me that I walked around all day with 'Property of Dr. Rodney McKay' written on my ass?"
Read: Magic Marker
Math Camp (09/08/06)
Author: Mel
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated PG only 'cause there's some swearing.
Summary:John Sheppard remembers something he knows Rodney McKay doesn't. Will he ever share?
Notes: Based on the "They were friends/loves when children, and meet up as adults" cliche. And there's math camp. And. Stuff.
Read: Math Camp
Author: Karen McFadyyon
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: R
Other: 55 KB
Summary: Penguinfic, mating rituals, and pebbles.
I was a little leery of this one because it sounded weird, but it was actually pretty amusing :)
Read: Mating Rituals
Matter of Fact
Author: Silvia Kundera
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Summary: John has generally been a firm believer that the best way to get anything is to not expect it.
Read: Matter of Fact
Maybe He Didn't (07/26/05)
Author: Kyrieane
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated Adult
Other: for the Abandonment Challenge on
Summary: Established. What defines a lover? By whose definition?
Read: Maybe He Didn't
The Median Trilogy (10/25/05)
Author: Alfirin_Kirinki
Genre: SLASH
Pairing: Markham/Stackhouse
Other: for the Fanfic100 challenge.
Read: The Median Trilogy
Mirror, Mirror On the Wall (10/26/05)
Author: Tarlan
Pairing: Sheppard/Carter, Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated NC-17
Other: 269 kb
Summary: When John Sheppard ends up in an alternate reality, he relies on Rodney McKay to get him home, and discovers far more about the scientist.
Read: Mirror, Mirror On the Wall
Moments Sacred and Profane series (07/19/05)
Author: Mice
Pairing: McKay/Beckett
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated NC-17
Summary: Carson and McKay get together and deal with life on Atlantis.
Read: Moments Sacred and Profane
Author: Karen McFadyyon
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: R
Other: 77KB
Summary: John discovers that being the most annoying person in the galaxy has an upside.
Read: The Most Annoying Person in the Galaxy
Mostly Harmless (08/04/05)
Author: Shalott
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Summary: John had gotten kind of blasé about offworld travel.
Read: Mostly Harmless
No Refunds or Exchanges (10/26/05)
Author: Shalott
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated Explicit
Other: 10821 words
Other: part of the
Summary: It shouldn't have been that hard to get good help
Rodney buys a "bride."
Read: No Refunds or Exchanges
Not Friends (07/08/05)
Author: helleboredoll
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated mostly harmless
Other: part of the 38 minute challenge. Time: 34.5 minutes to write. 3.5 minutes of editing.
Spoilers: A bit for The Defiant One
Summary: Rodney didn't have any friends on Earth.
Read: Not Friends
Not Quite Witchcraft (09/08/06)
Author: Teza
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Genre: SLASH
Other: rated PG, I guess. Or maybe PG-13. I don't know. Sheppard doesn't get a blowjob.
Summary : McKay gets flower(s)!
Notes : Harlequin Challenge fic. I've never read one myself, so when I saw this book lying around I grabbed it, read the back, and declared, 'Ah hah!' It turned out 100% different and the impending comparison between John's SOOPERATA-gene and magic never happened.
Read: Not Quite Witchcraft
Anyone got any other recs? Leave 'em in the comments. Thanks!
