It's a British-American co-production based on Rosemary Sutcliff's classic children's novel from 1954, The Eagle of the Ninth. Here's the blurb, as taken from one of the official postings of the trailer ( Read more... )

I've posted an update at my recommendations site, Buried Treasure, with reviews of the following:

* E. F. Benson's David Blaize at King's
* Thom Magister's The Slave Journals and Other Tales of the Old Guard
* James Buchanan's Hard Fall
* Christopher White's Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen
* C.S.A.: The Confederate States ( Read more... )

I'm reccing this because most people are likely to miss noticing it unless I point it out: BBC Radio 7 is rerunning a really excellent version of Blake's 7. I've never seen the original television series (well, except the premiere episode, but I was fourteen then), so I don't know how the radio version compares, but this is well worth listening to ( Read more... )

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The highlights:
-Now available in a single e-book: all of the fiction, nonfiction, and fiction recommendations at Love in Dark Settings.
-"He had made it more than clear during the past three years that he considered me a frail creature, incapable of enduring the hardened life of a soldier. But, then, his opinion was shared by all in the Tascanian ( Read more... )

Two announcements: First of all, morgan_cian and I have started a LiveJournal community, prisonlit, for the posting and recommendation of original fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama on imprisonment or captivity. We hope all you original prisonerfic writers - or aspiring original prisonerfic writers - will stop by and post. (If you're a frustrated prisoner fanfic ( Read more... )

Well, not exactly new - it just took me a while to notice it. orig_slavefic is devoted to original fiction on slavery, either nonconsensual or consensual. This is a nice complement to slavefics, which is devoted to fan fiction and original fiction on slavery or service. At both comms, all genders of pairings are welcome.