Reprise--Heyer, Austen, Silver Fork Novels

[sartorias]

Several of the conversations I fell into at Readercon touched on this subject. That and a small but over-the-years persistent request to republish my riff resulted in me doing that today.

Anyone want to discuss?

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[whswhs]

I'm slightly perplexed by the spelling "tonnish." Since it's a word of French origin, I would have expected it to have, roughly, a long O-to be either tõ with a nasalized vowel, or tone-and then I would spell it "tonish"; doubling the consonant suggests "tunnish." (Disregarding the change of American spelling to drop doubled consonants in general, which still always looks wrong to me.)

I have never read a word of Heyer. I've glanced briefly at Bulwer-Lytton, but it was The Coming Race, and just enough to spot an exposition of comparative linguistics of some sort; I only know of his other fiction from your writing about it. I went to Austen directly. I think that was before I realized what a total Austen fan Kipling was; I'm really not sure what led me to her, except maybe a wish to have a look at some of the classics. I am amused to see that one of the titles you quote suggests what Bujold was riffing on in A Civil CampaignOne of my favorite fanfic writers, a_t_rain, has been doing a series of Bujold-inspired works on Archive of Our

[sartorias]

Oh those fics sound terrific!

[whswhs]

I think there's a fairly good chance you would like them. I enjoyed both the characterization and the dialogue. And unlike some fanfic, these actually have conflict and plots.

[sartorias]

Bujold fics seem to be better than many, I've found.