http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8834944/

I admit, I don't think I've ever gotten any fan fiction-- at least, not since the Jewel Vixens days, and I'd be hard-pressed to find any fan fiction on this entire website that quite captures what  Baltar has done.

Now, I should probably confess that I once was a fan fiction writer, and a very enthusiastic one. I owe some of my oldest friends in the fandom to those earliest days, but I also owe some of my narrative abilities to those trial-and-error days hammering away at the keys energetically and sharing work between two or three colleagues whom, we all knew, would probably be the only readers of the work. Without promise of compensation of any kind, with only the passion for the material in mind, we saw good and bad, and we created both good and bad. There was the noteworthy and the cringeworthy, and all of it sits somewhere in the primordial ooze of fan-fiction everywhere.

I promised myself in those days that if I were ever in a position to give accolades to accomplished fans, I would try to at least give better than I had received when I was doing the same thing. After reading Baltar's work, it's the least I can do to try and extend it 15 minutes of fame.

Soldiers Misfortune, though plainly titled, does something I've rarely seen in fan-fiction. In fact, I've rarely even seen it in collaborative fiction. It shows true cooperation between a fan-made character and a canon character. Baltar doesn't go on a grand adventure with another person's character- something I myself have been guilty of. Instead, he sticks with what has been established about Fred and makes small extensions based on as much info about him as he could dig up. He then integrated his own character in a fashion befitting the style of the original, taking into account what is unusual about the comic- history and geopolitical climate- while creating a compelling case for the two characters to ally with each other despite ideological differences.

As you might expect, there's violence, deceit, and double-crossing in an appropriately turbulent time and place, and it does it all without obligatory gay sex. It's taut, lively, and fun, and while I admit a degree of gushing pride from the very act of receiving fan fiction, I can say honestly that if you're a fan of Fred Savage you'll likely enjoy Baltar's work.