Yuletide Recs G-R

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The Girl With the Silver Eyes – Willo Davis Roberts

All I Really Need to Know I Learnt From Science Fiction - I read this book once as a kid, and then the copy from the library vanished. Until about six months ago, when I stumbled across a second-hand copy, I was beginning to think I'd imagined its very existence. Not only is it real, but here is brilliant fic for it – the kids after the end, sneakily using their powers to defend against bullies.

Taking Flight - and more, this one shorter and lighter – the kids experiment with flight.

Greek and Roman Myths

chicks before dicks has never really been our motto - sorority AU with parties and awful family moments and delicious Venus/Minerva.

Gorgoneia - the surviving Gorgons, adapting to survive. Very rich, this, and terribly sad.

A Knight's Tale

When the Road Darkens - takes the canon and fixes it in history, in battle and danger and the way that a prince's regard is not always a safe or comfortable thing. Brilliant.

Maurice

Aurora Mundi - a follow-up to Maurice, where Clive and Anne meet Maurice and Alec in Italy (so very Forsterish, that choice of setting). The joy of this one is Anne and the way she's transformed, but it's all beautifully done.

Oz – Frank L. Baum

The Royal Wedding of Oz - Dorothy/Ozma, and delightful from the birthday party at the beginning to the introduction of blue jeans to Oz to Dorothy and Ozma running away to go fishing.

The Princess Bride

Epilogue (The Good Parts Version) - charming and quirky little epilogue, with the same kind of humour as the original.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Alive and Well and Living in Paris - clever and bittersweet and dreamlike.


Dancing Shoes / Wintle's Wonders – Noel Streatfeild

And, out of their alphabetical place, because I won't get the last set down before the reveal, I must mention the stories I received for Noel Streatfeild's Dancing Shoes/Wintle's Wonders

A Conversation in Hollywood has Hilary making an unexpected visit to Rachel and an exploration of how their futures may be subtly different from what they expected.

Postmarked (a study in contrasts) shows how, despite the seeming differences in their lives, Rachel and Hilary never grow apart, with lots of lovely little details about their respective lives, and a really vital, lively Hilary.

Wintle's Wonders All Grown Up is about Rachel and Dulcie as adults, forming a tentative friendship as Dulcie tries to decide what she wants for herself. This has a really interesting persepctive on Dulcie.

I also then received a Madness fic in the same fandom: Different Dreams is all about Hilary and a possible future for her.