Recently read books + fic rec
Oct. 24th, 2013 10:57 pmA Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason
( Anthropological SF about first contact with aliens (or, watch Luz complain about worldbuilding). )
I also read Hästarnas himmel, by Gunnar Isacson. This was the book that my blind date from a few weeks ago loaned to me, and I enjoyed it. It's a short memoir from the 1950's about workhorses on a farm in northern Sweden, and has some lovely writing and nature description.
As for fic, I can rec you Home For Next Year, by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
scribe! It's a 55,000-word Kowalski/Vecchio fic, which is not a pairing that I am in any way emotionally invested in, but this fic is so good that it really made me care about them together! There's a lot of Fraser in it, too, and a lot of Vecchio family stuff, and in general, it's just a really good story. Go read it, people.
(Only very tangentially related: where are the long F/K/V fics from Fraser's POV? Every single long F/K/V fic is from the POV of one of the Rays, at least from what I've seen. Is this because of the need to develop the K/V relationship, which is not canonically established? I'd really like to see that from Fraser's POV, though.)
( Anthropological SF about first contact with aliens (or, watch Luz complain about worldbuilding). )
I also read Hästarnas himmel, by Gunnar Isacson. This was the book that my blind date from a few weeks ago loaned to me, and I enjoyed it. It's a short memoir from the 1950's about workhorses on a farm in northern Sweden, and has some lovely writing and nature description.
As for fic, I can rec you Home For Next Year, by
scribe! It's a 55,000-word Kowalski/Vecchio fic, which is not a pairing that I am in any way emotionally invested in, but this fic is so good that it really made me care about them together! There's a lot of Fraser in it, too, and a lot of Vecchio family stuff, and in general, it's just a really good story. Go read it, people. (Only very tangentially related: where are the long F/K/V fics from Fraser's POV? Every single long F/K/V fic is from the POV of one of the Rays, at least from what I've seen. Is this because of the need to develop the K/V relationship, which is not canonically established? I'd really like to see that from Fraser's POV, though.)
