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Ellen Kushner

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TREMONTAINE from @SerialBoxPublishing is the collaborative prequel to SWORDSPOINT & the other books & stories in the Riverside Series. Other stuff: *Thomas the Rhymer* *Welcome to Bordertown* with Holly Black *Sound & Spirit* on national public radio. I'm political on Twitter, and personal on FaceBook. This one is mostly just for fun, fans & sex.
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Swordspoint - The Privilege of the Sword - The Fall of the Kings (Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman)

  • Very queer fantasy books!
  • Each can be read more or less as a standalone, while there are recurring characters there's also consequent time skips between each volume (like, decades)
  • Very atmospheric
  • No magic until the last book
  • A lot of swordfighting and duels of all kinds

8/10

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ellenkushner

I love my British covers. They match!

I got to tell them that the TPOTS hand (and sleeve cuff) should look a lot more feminine.

They did their best.

#swordspoint#the privilege of the sword#the fall of the kings#riverside series#book recs#authorlurkage#lurking
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The Duke of Riverside - Uncanny Magazine
I. That kid didn’t belong here. We all knew it from the moment he walked through the door at Rosalie’s, full of nerves and rage. If you belong, you never sport those two together. Everyone in Riverside knows that. It is a wise precaution to assume that anyone angry is also armed. The drinkers stopped …
uncannymagazine.com

I. That kid didn’t belong here. We all knew it from the moment he walked through the door at Rosalie’s, full of nerves and rage. If you belong, you never sport those two together. Everyone in Riverside knows that. It is a wise precaution to assume that anyone angry is also armed. The drinkers stopped …

Source: uncannymagazine.com
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“The compensation of growing old [is] that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained — at last! — the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence, — the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it around, slowly, in the light.”

— Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

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imaginarius13

When we consider all that our world is going through this week, we can take a quiet break here:

On Holy Ground...

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If you've ever felt that our world is a circus, you're not alone... Here is: A Delicate Balance

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ellenkushner

Swordspoint film announced

CAST TO FEATURE MOSTLY DEAD ACTORS AND CLONES

April 1, 2116, Hollywood, LA

22nd Century Fox has announced green lighting of the property it acquired in 1996, Swordspoint, by public radio personality Ellen Kushner. Casting includes:

Diane, Duchess Tremontaine: Faye Dunaway

Anthony Deverin, Lord Ferris: Basil Rathbone

Asper Lindley, Lord Horn: Peter O’Toole

Michael Godwin: Corin Redgrave

Richard St Vier: Billy Crudup

Alec Campion: My skinny boyfriend with the long red hair who played Cassius in that black box production of Julius Caesar in 1985 on W. 18th St.

Marie: Mae West

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ellenkushner

3 days late but who’s counting?

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““… Now the old Duke lay in the bed he had not lain in for twenty years, in the house he had built, furnished and decorated and then abandoned. In a time when today’s young lovers were not yet born, the Duke had left his city and his rights and his duties to follow his lover, the first and oldest and best, to a far island where they might live at last for love, although the word was never spoken.” – “The Death of the Duke,” by Ellen Kushner”

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http://www.strangehorizons.com/2012/20120730/duke-f.shtml

#swordspoint#alec campion#riverside series#richard st vier
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“I’m interested in religion, because it is the system of symbols and metaphors in which I think some truth is caught like gold dust in a sieve.”

—Francis Spufford

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[Image description: Several digital colored drawings of Alec and Richard from Swordspoint. Alec is a tall skinny man with long brown hair and green eyes in a black robe. Richard is a shorter, more muscular man with dark curly hair.

First image, Top left: Sketch of Richard helping Alec out of his shirt. Alec looks tired, but looks down at Richard with a smile. Text pointing to him says "High off his ass". Alec is saying something, but the speech bubble is empty.

Top right: Alec with short hair, looking shocked and blushing. He holds a small ring in his hand. Someone offscreen says "He still wants you".

Bottom right: A small drawing of Richard holding up a sword while Alec flips off whoever is looking at them from behind. Text points to him reading "Started the fight".

Second image: Richard kisses Alec while grabbing his shoulder and touching his cheek. Alec's eyes are open, and he has one hand on Richard's waist and the other on his upper back. They're saying something, though the speech bubbles are empty. End id]

/waves hands/ mad bad lads

anyway. made a 2 hour playlist. i live here now. gonna punt alec into the sun

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ellenkushner

I was scrolling through and saw this and thought, gee, they look like my guys, but no one does them… and then

GIF by ratstims
#swordspoint#alec campion#richard st. vier#tremontaine
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