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Time Shall Not Mend
A thousand years away and half across the galaxy a bereaved young woman stalks through a cocktail party thinking: "Anywhere but here". Meanwhile, back on Earth and in the dying days of the struggle against Voldemort a plague has been unleashed on the wizarding community. A potion to cure it exists - but a crucial ingredient is a plant which grows only on a remote mountain in Scotland. And that mountain has an almost impenetrable defence around it. Worlds are about to collide.
This work was conceived as a birthday tribute to E.H. Smith, whose trilogy Marks and Scars, Without Enchantment, and No Great Magic first crossed the Vorkosiverse with the Potterverse, to stunning effect.
This work was conceived as a birthday tribute to E.H. Smith, whose trilogy Marks and Scars, Without Enchantment, and No Great Magic first crossed the Vorkosiverse with the Potterverse, to stunning effect.
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A.J. Hall
13 books4 followersA.J. Hall is resident in Greater Manchester, which was once, before the infamous depredations of the 1974 Local Government Acts, rightfully part of the County Palatine of Lancashire.
Hall was educated at one of the older Universities of this kingdom, and encountered sufficient like-minded nutters there to use as case-studies so as to argue convincingly against compulsory committal ever since (though luck on this point may be starting to run out). Fandoms include Torchwood, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey stories, Mary Renault, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and, most recently, Sherlock.
Besides writing, Hall's hobbies include sailing obsessively around the Irish Sea and Western Scotland, drinking and arguing about trivialities endlessly in various on-line forums.
Hall's most significant SF fandom moment was possibly meeting Terry Pratchett in the kitchen at a party in West Croydon in the late 1980s, though it is fair to say that a friend who was also at the party recalls the host telling her that Terry Pratchett had been unavoidably prevented from attending.
Hall was educated at one of the older Universities of this kingdom, and encountered sufficient like-minded nutters there to use as case-studies so as to argue convincingly against compulsory committal ever since (though luck on this point may be starting to run out). Fandoms include Torchwood, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey stories, Mary Renault, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and, most recently, Sherlock.
Besides writing, Hall's hobbies include sailing obsessively around the Irish Sea and Western Scotland, drinking and arguing about trivialities endlessly in various on-line forums.
Hall's most significant SF fandom moment was possibly meeting Terry Pratchett in the kitchen at a party in West Croydon in the late 1980s, though it is fair to say that a friend who was also at the party recalls the host telling her that Terry Pratchett had been unavoidably prevented from attending.
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July 16, 2017It's been a long time since I've read crossover fanfic that convinced me to try out the unfamiliar fandom, but AJ Hall convinced me at long last to try out Bujold with this effort. For which I thank her.
This is a good story even when you haven't a clue about Barrayar. Especially the Draco-in-Barrayar bits with the future of the magical race.
(Speaking of fanfic on Goodreads, I noted that someone has put my own opus in as a book. It feels strange, almost like cheating.)
This is a good story even when you haven't a clue about Barrayar. Especially the Draco-in-Barrayar bits with the future of the magical race.
(Speaking of fanfic on Goodreads, I noted that someone has put my own opus in as a book. It feels strange, almost like cheating.)
February 7, 2019
I am tearing through these stories! This time the focus is on Ekaterin Vorkosigan and Draco Malfoy, starting with an unexplained transplantation of a grieving Ekaterin to twentieth-century Earth, during the wizarding war, where her life-saving actions leave Draco with a sense of blood debt owed to her at the end of Chapter 1.
Then he finds himself on Barrayer, amid a bewilderingly militaristic and interplanetary high society suddenly desperate in the face of an unexpected conflict. The ways the various Barrayarans (Cordelia, Gregor, Miles, Alys, Pym, By, Ivan, young Nikki, and more, plus of course the antagonists) interact with him and each other are brilliant and spot-on, revealing cleverly observed parallels and contrasts, and a tangle of believable emotions. Yet even in the most nail-biting moments, the writing never loses its flashes of humor as well.
The only Bujold-based bit I never thought much about before was Ekaterin's less-than-delight with Admiral Elli Quinn's continued connection to Miles.
LOP Draco continues to be an appealing protagonist to follow, not the sort to charge forward with self-sacrificing heroic folly, but frustrated by the difficulty of escaping the shadow of his family name.
BTW, there are end-notes explaining the allusions and quotes throughout. This installment has several from Kipling, among others. Again, it's available to download in multiple formats, or read online.
Then he finds himself on Barrayer, amid a bewilderingly militaristic and interplanetary high society suddenly desperate in the face of an unexpected conflict. The ways the various Barrayarans (Cordelia, Gregor, Miles, Alys, Pym, By, Ivan, young Nikki, and more, plus of course the antagonists) interact with him and each other are brilliant and spot-on, revealing cleverly observed parallels and contrasts, and a tangle of believable emotions. Yet even in the most nail-biting moments, the writing never loses its flashes of humor as well.
The only Bujold-based bit I never thought much about before was Ekaterin's less-than-delight with Admiral Elli Quinn's continued connection to Miles.
LOP Draco continues to be an appealing protagonist to follow, not the sort to charge forward with self-sacrificing heroic folly, but frustrated by the difficulty of escaping the shadow of his family name.
BTW, there are end-notes explaining the allusions and quotes throughout. This installment has several from Kipling, among others. Again, it's available to download in multiple formats, or read online.
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