sutcliff_swap | Promote your favorite Sutcliff book(s)!

We're going to post the Sutcliff Swap rules and schedule, and open for sign-ups, Real Soon Now! But while you're waiting, why not squee about your favorite Sutcliff book in the comments here? This is your chance to remind others of that book they'd almost forgotten they'd loved, and inspire them to request or offer fanfiction or fanart for it. And if a book you haven't read sounds good to you, you can read it this summer and enjoy the fanworks created for it - and maybe you'll want to request it for Yuletide or Yuletart, or for next year's Sutcliff Swap. (Because this is going to be so much fun we will want to do it again!)

We're doing this on Dreamwidth only, so that we can use comment subject lines to identify the books we're talking about. If you don't have a Dreamwidth login, you can use OpenID or comment anonymously. ETA: anonymous commenting is now enabled! OpenID works too, which will email you comment replies. Please join in and promote your favorite Sutcliff books (this post has a list of all the books), and start thinking about what you might want to request and offer for the Sutcliff Swap!

Also, if you are intrigued by the descriptions of books you haven't read yet, you should be sure to join, not just watch, the community (at either site) so you can see locked posts. *cough*

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It's really gorgeous. I haven't reread it in ages and it made me weep buckets. And now I'm going to have to read it again to find the Talore looking into the fire description! I'm interested in what happened between Talore and Morvidd to make Talore defy him over Whitethroat. And there's that sidelong exchange between Talore and Cathlan at the king-making too. So much space for fanfic!

Hmmm, I can't remember the details. Thomas and Tussan aren't called Agha, I don't think--that's a specific character, who was a top manager sort.

Annoyingly, I can't find much on the internet about the real Thomas Keith/Osman Effendi.

I copied the plot summary from Amazon, for I am crap at plot summaries!

Yeah, it's kind of an odd book in the Sutcliff canon. I'm not sure I would actually have liked it, had I read it back in my LoA days when I bought it, right on top of EOT9 and TSC. I have sort of mixed feelings about it now, but it's definitely interesting.

... also to add very quietly and for the record that, to my knowledge, gloria_mundi (of AO3, above) wrote the very first Sutcliff fiction on the web: she wrote it about this book and posted on the long defunct and sadly missed Slash Cotillion website. That would have been... eh, pre 2002? Just saying. :)

Oh, cool! I didn't realize.

Psst-- you may not remember any better than me, but do you recall if the horse was ever assigned a gender in the book?

Sorry, I don't. something is telling me stallion, but on the other hand it might have been a mare for Epona.

...actually come to think of it it may have been both, he told them it was a warrior's stallion but he meant it as Epona's.

/unhelpful

Also may I say how delighted I am that you have reached the point where you are asking the question. :)

...actually come to think of it it may have been both, he told them it was a warrior's stallion but he meant it as Epona's.

See, this would be perfect! Although I suppose I can have Cottia tell it like that even if that wasn't really how the book went.

(I am at the point of a complete draft and impatiently waiting for the book to show up argh argh why don't any of my libraries have it? OH I DIDN'T CHECK THE UNI LIBRARY. And...no, but I wonder if Death of the Corn King discusses it in detail. I bet it does.)

I agree with

carmarthen on this - mythological and/or supernatural elements are fine.

I'm not aware of a BBC version of Blood Feud, however there was a series based on the book made by Thames Television in 1990 which was called Sea Dragon (after the ship in the novel).

I can't find very much about it online, sadly, although basic information is on imdb.

If you want to change your signup, send me email, isiscolo@gmail.com. You did fill only 3 of your 4 slots.

Isis, I'm really sorry about the late reply - parental visit. And I'm really grateful for the offer, thought about it hard, and decided not. But really do appreciate the thought - thanks!

I am also onboard the post-canon Randal/Herluin ship, but I'm having a little trouble wrapping my brain around how to make it work (obviously, as

opalmatrix says, Herluin would be in and out).

Plus there's the Gisella factor: I think it's pretty clear she and Randal will get married eventually....

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