Promote your favorite Sutcliff book(s)!

[isis]

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*

Comments

Re: Outcast

[isis]

AHAHAHA. I totally agree that Sutcliff would be entirely onboard with fanfiction.

I actually was thinking about starting this now, as I've just finished reading The Shield Ring. I had been avoiding it for reasons of having read a string of really depressing Sutcliff and wanting something a little cheerier first, but I guess it's time. (Don't spoil me; I only was advised not to read it right away after my doom-and-gloom post about other books.)

Re: Outcast

[tryfanstone]

! - how can I say it's not that depressing without spoiling it for you?

It's not that depressing.

It has some absolutely amazing depictions of storms. And it's a little more firmly set in place and period than some of her Romanobritish novels. Plus, Justinius is well worth the read.

I'd read it. :)

Re: Outcast

[isis]

Hee, I'm sure! I mean, Frontier Wolf is not depressing, but the subtext I was seeing was Alexios/Cunorix, so I was a swirly mass of feelings, and then when the next thing I read was Mark of the Horse Lord I kind of plunged off an emotional cliff.

(I am tapping my foot waiting for Someone Else to pimp Mark of the Horse Lord but if she doesn't I'm going to, because GAHH AWESOME BOOK.)

Re: Outcast

[tryfanstone]

But we don't ship the same main pairing in Frontier Wolf (or Generation Kill!) so how do I know I'm *not* sending you off a cliff! - no, seriously, do read it: you can hit me up with Bonnie Dundee in assignments if I fail you...

Totally agree with you about Mark of the Horse Lord. It tore my heart in shreds, too. I rather thought you might like to post about that one.

Song for a Dark Queen comes very close in atmosphere to MotHL, I think. Sutcliff's Boudicca is awesome. Er... yeah, kind of obligatory sad ending, there? She dies? I... don't feel that's a spoiler? *grins*

Re: Outcast

[isis]

I have actually come around to Alexios/Hilarion provided the assumption of (even unrequited) Alexios/Cunorix prior.

I am waiting to see if smillaraaq posts on Mark of the Horse Lord first. If she doesn't, I will!

I haven't read Song for a Dark Queen yet. Yeah, it's not a spoiler if it's, you know, history.

Re: Outcast

[tryfanstone]

Had to laugh. After you posted, I came round to in-canon-time Alexios/Cunorix...

Re: Outcast

[isis]

And holy crap, I am 2 chapters in and ADORING THIS. Did you know, btw, I am a sailor and meteorologist? :-)