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larryhammerOne last round of Yuletide recs for this year, at least in any systematic way, though I may occasionally dip back into the archives once in a while or as recs catch my eye:
A Little Goddess - A Little Princess retold as a Ptolemaic Kingdom AU, lambent with Egyptian myth and magic. And a Gorgonic curse.
An Odd Carriage - Summary: "This is what happens when you read too much Discworld, and then read a certain famous poem. And are me." The poem being by Emily Dickinson.
Nin-Me-Sara - Akkadian Empire RPF about Enheduana, the world's oldest known author, and an archaeologist translating a tablet with one of her hymns to Inanna (whose priestess she was).
Að fara til Íslands - In 1936 an English public-school boy spends the summer hols working an Icelandic trawler, and in Reykjavík meets a schoolmaster named Wystan Auden. This is technically backstory for a character in Mary Renault's The Charioteer but is accurately tagged "Don't Have to Know Canon." This may be the best-written story I've read this Yuletide.
Scymnus Diaboli - an episode that takes place between Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades and Devil's Cub. I especially like how the writer matched Heyer's voice direct, rather than through the medium of the voice of that shared-world corpus known as Regency Romances.
Dragonsearch - a Pern story in which Mirrim goes on Search to find other young women to impress green dragons.
The Owl and the Cuckoo - a sequel to Love's Labor's Lost that is justifiably tagged Plucky Girl Detectives, Muscovite Costumes, and Unholy Unions of Prose and Verse. If this is not enough to convince you to try it, nothing else I can say would.
The End and the Way - a Left Hand of Darkness story set on Winter with original characters, which reads very close to Le Guin's own voice -- except that the narrative was not as taut as possible, it could almost be an original Le Guin story. I do not say such things lightly.
By Any Means Necessary - Vorkosigan Saga, an Ivan-based short novel set a little after Diplomatic Immunity, anticipating the forthcoming Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Working Title). Yes, I realize this means I've rec'd the two longest Yuletide fics this year. So?
By the World Forgot - for Spirited Away, an origin story for Kamaji, the Old Boiler Man.
Also, one of my gifts, Journey to the Southwest, has had a second chapter added to it, in which Monkey et al meet Coyote. Raunchy hilarity ensues.
---L.
A Little Goddess - A Little Princess retold as a Ptolemaic Kingdom AU, lambent with Egyptian myth and magic. And a Gorgonic curse.
An Odd Carriage - Summary: "This is what happens when you read too much Discworld, and then read a certain famous poem. And are me." The poem being by Emily Dickinson.
Nin-Me-Sara - Akkadian Empire RPF about Enheduana, the world's oldest known author, and an archaeologist translating a tablet with one of her hymns to Inanna (whose priestess she was).
Að fara til Íslands - In 1936 an English public-school boy spends the summer hols working an Icelandic trawler, and in Reykjavík meets a schoolmaster named Wystan Auden. This is technically backstory for a character in Mary Renault's The Charioteer but is accurately tagged "Don't Have to Know Canon." This may be the best-written story I've read this Yuletide.
Scymnus Diaboli - an episode that takes place between Georgette Heyer's These Old Shades and Devil's Cub. I especially like how the writer matched Heyer's voice direct, rather than through the medium of the voice of that shared-world corpus known as Regency Romances.
Dragonsearch - a Pern story in which Mirrim goes on Search to find other young women to impress green dragons.
The Owl and the Cuckoo - a sequel to Love's Labor's Lost that is justifiably tagged Plucky Girl Detectives, Muscovite Costumes, and Unholy Unions of Prose and Verse. If this is not enough to convince you to try it, nothing else I can say would.
The End and the Way - a Left Hand of Darkness story set on Winter with original characters, which reads very close to Le Guin's own voice -- except that the narrative was not as taut as possible, it could almost be an original Le Guin story. I do not say such things lightly.
By Any Means Necessary - Vorkosigan Saga, an Ivan-based short novel set a little after Diplomatic Immunity, anticipating the forthcoming Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Working Title). Yes, I realize this means I've rec'd the two longest Yuletide fics this year. So?
By the World Forgot - for Spirited Away, an origin story for Kamaji, the Old Boiler Man.
Also, one of my gifts, Journey to the Southwest, has had a second chapter added to it, in which Monkey et al meet Coyote. Raunchy hilarity ensues.
---L.
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Date: 9 January 2012 01:04 pm (UTC)How do people BE so clever and so wonderful?!
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Date: 9 January 2012 02:38 pm (UTC)(So I should have warned you about the M/M scenes?)
---L.
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Date: 9 January 2012 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 January 2012 05:50 pm (UTC)Now that I think about it, it fits better with the slang met in, say, Kipling than the school stories of the 50s/60s that I've read.
---L.