Assorted recs, mostly more fresh than usual, including my favourites from this summer's Night on Fic Mountain, Lost Library exchange, Not Prime Time & Sutcliff Swap.

( 12 recs in Duchess of Malfi, LotR, Knight's Fee, P&P, Poirot, Silmarillion, Star Trek (DS9, TNG, TOS), The Tempest, Vorkosigan, Whoniverse, including crossovers )

The 2015 round of the
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A predominantly female-centric batch including Sutcliff Swap 2014 & Rare Women 2014.

( 5 recs in Tolkien, Sutcliff (Blood Feud, Outcast, Silver Branch )

I wrote The Emerald Band for Zaganthi, 'The Speckled Band' in the 'A Study in Emerald' universe. (SiE is Neil Gaiman's crossover of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos with Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and if you haven't read it you should do so.)
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I've been recommending gen stories at
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As everyone in the fandoms will no doubt know, the Sutcliff Swap 2014 collection has been open since Monday! As in previous years the quality is exceptionally high; I don't know whether it's the small to micro size of all the fandoms or something about the source material, but the stories are almost uniformly strong ( Read more... )

I signed up for this year's
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The Sutcliff Exchange 2013 again inspired stories of very high quality; all the works are worth trying but here are three of my favourites...

( 3x Blood Feud & Frontier Wolf )

Stories that you could swear were canon, except for the bit that isn't... whether that's genderbending, filling in the missing erotica, or textualising all that homoerotic subtext. For those who don't want to choose between more of & more from canon.

( 6 recs in Discworld, Georgette Heyer, Isaac Asimov, Jane Eyre, Love Actually, Rosemary Sutcliff )

I haven't made any recommendations in mumble mumble months; there are a variety of cat-ate-my-homework excuses with which I won't bore you. Anyway. One of the nice things of late has been the upsurge in interest in Rosemary Sutcliff's novels. Here are four of my favourites from last year's excellent Sutcliff Swap...

( 4 recs in Blood Feud, Frontier Wolf & Lantern Bearers )