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crack_van2008-11-30 04:42 pm
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Correspondence by Ankharet (PG)
Fandom: SWORDSPOINT
Pairing: implied only.
Length: circa 9K
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rose_and_lizard (fic)
Author Website: on LJ: a wonderful fic listing here.
Why this must be read:
Written forthe_antichris in Yuletide 2007, Ankharet’s Correspondence is set after The Privilege of the Sword, and is one of the very few stories in the fandom to discuss Katherine of Privilege at some length. It is a fully realised future history – a Riverside with juddering motor cars and fur coats, poised on the edges of modernity - in which Rose and Lizard’s teenage Charis and Samantha Campion read their way through the Duchess Katherine’s epistolary adventures, a history echoed and counter-pointed by their own. Correspondence is a joy to read, not just for the addition to canon, but for the author’s ability to conjure relationships and places both recognisable and seen anew.
It’s a lovely ending to a month of recs that have been a joy to rediscover.
‘Riverside looked like three cities at once, all of them packed into the small space of an island in the slow and ice-choked river, and two at least of them pulsating with feverish activity. At one end of the island, the Illyria faced the tall white gracefulness of the Fitz-Levi Building across a road that seemed built for Tielman-Sevilles and six-seater Swordsman Tourers and nothing else, no people and no horses and nothing to mar the cold salt-in-the-throat wonder of the future. The other end was full of big cranes, like the ones on the docks. Men in caps and frieze coats hurried about with hods of bricks or buckets of mortar. Every other building seemed to have a wooden scaffold about it, or to be nothing but a scaffold, or a great hole in the midst of lumpy snow. Charis wondered how far they would have to dig down before the river came in.’
Correspondence
Pairing: implied only.
Length: circa 9K
Author on LJ:
rose_and_lizard (fic)Author Website: on LJ: a wonderful fic listing here.
Why this must be read:
Written for
the_antichris in Yuletide 2007, Ankharet’s Correspondence is set after The Privilege of the Sword, and is one of the very few stories in the fandom to discuss Katherine of Privilege at some length. It is a fully realised future history – a Riverside with juddering motor cars and fur coats, poised on the edges of modernity - in which Rose and Lizard’s teenage Charis and Samantha Campion read their way through the Duchess Katherine’s epistolary adventures, a history echoed and counter-pointed by their own. Correspondence is a joy to read, not just for the addition to canon, but for the author’s ability to conjure relationships and places both recognisable and seen anew. It’s a lovely ending to a month of recs that have been a joy to rediscover.
‘Riverside looked like three cities at once, all of them packed into the small space of an island in the slow and ice-choked river, and two at least of them pulsating with feverish activity. At one end of the island, the Illyria faced the tall white gracefulness of the Fitz-Levi Building across a road that seemed built for Tielman-Sevilles and six-seater Swordsman Tourers and nothing else, no people and no horses and nothing to mar the cold salt-in-the-throat wonder of the future. The other end was full of big cranes, like the ones on the docks. Men in caps and frieze coats hurried about with hods of bricks or buckets of mortar. Every other building seemed to have a wooden scaffold about it, or to be nothing but a scaffold, or a great hole in the midst of lumpy snow. Charis wondered how far they would have to dig down before the river came in.’
Correspondence