The Stargate: Atlantis Big Bang Challenge began in February of 2007 with 50+ writers, 25 artists and one blinking mod.

There were several story prompts to choose from: Atlantis being cut off from Earth or destroyed, a story set Post S3, or 'forks in the road' where writers had to select a significant moment in canon and see what happened on that path not taken.  In order to be as inclusive as possible without completely overwhelming the participants, three (main) pairings were permitted: John/Rodney, Elizabeth/Ronon and Teyla/Elizabeth.  All of the 16 stories that were completed are John/Rodney and over 40,000 words in length.  We also wanted to be as all-encompassing artistically as possible, so vids, manipulations, drawings and essentially any art form was permitted; we have 39 pieces of artwork in total.  All of the stories have at least one art submission, decided on by our talented, hand-picked artists blindly pointing at summaries and going "ooh, that one!"

Over 800,000 words and countless hours were contributed to this challenge.  I would like to personally ask that you please be especially generous in your feedback.

I also wish to thank the following people for making entire endeavor possible.

Thank you for visiting us.  We all sincerely hope you have a blast!

~Madelyn

Credits & Acknowledgments

The SGA Big Bang is based on the Harry Potter challenge of the same name.  Thank you for being an inspiration across fandoms!

Thanks to: the fabulous website team of lauralaitaine, lim, ringspells, summertea, bingeling and korestemenos for all their amazing, well-organized and aesthetically glorious work on this site.  (Please note that the 11 picture squares above/to the side are skins that you can simply click on and change the archive's appearance as you see fit.)  Particularly heavy gratitude goes to lauralaitaine and lim for leading the troops and essentially...doing everything to make this come together!  In the same vein, thanks again to oxoniensis for her original work on the layout and linkback buttons for the livejournal community.

Thanks to seperis and eleveninches for offering their help in moderating the community. (I'm such a control freak that I didn't feel the need to take them up on it, but they were there!  And they'd have done stuff if I let them!)

Thanks to the artists, writers, beta readers and cheerleaders - you were all a pleasure to work with, and I sincerely hope this was an enjoyable, pride-inducing experience for all of you.

Contact Information

You will find a link to a livejournal entry where you can leave your comments on any of the stories and artwork.  I would like to personally encourage you to do so because this is one of the hardest challenges I can think of participating in and anyone who can manage to write a good sized novella in the span of months or create a fantastic piece of artwork in just three weeks deserves as much kudos as they can possibly garner.  It's important to encourage the efforts of those who go above and beyond in their fandoms!

*g* Okay, enough badgering.   (Just be glad I totally draw my personal line at voodoo.)

Any questions or comments, please feel free to e-mail the maintainer.