Lilac City is totally a blast from the past. It's consumed probably tens of hours of my life, because I've re-read it so often.

And also The Sentinel - I never thought about it before, but that's another example of how amazingly fanfic-y that show is. Hee.

True. Although I suspect that the kind of fan fiction it most closely emulates is the ff.net kind. (I, um. Tried to watch the first episode. I was traumatized. It - there was the world's most unconvincing jungle, and truly unfortunate dialogue, and just, oh, all kinds of bad stuff. My point: the writers were definitely not bringing their A game, or if they were, oh my god, I don't ever want to know what it looks like when they aren't trying. No offense if you love the series, though. Perhaps the first ten minutes of episode one aren't really the ones where it shines.)