Y'know, with an SF-thriller that's driven by a mysterious space-time rift, comparisons are going to be inevitable. Lovecraft came up with it first (or someone before him) so everyone just needs to hush with the cries of "How derivative", darnit.

That's just my opinion, of course.

re: Jack/Ianto bondage, we'll see if I can write it down without imploding in a puff of bashfulness. ;)

and I just scrawled down a page of dialog for the follow-up to "Honesty as a Blunt Instrument" and out of (relatively) nowhere, Ianto just let Jack know that one of his (Jack's) nicknames is "Heartless Harkness". God, I love these guys. :)