[fic recs] Narnia, Tortall, BSC
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escritoireazulChronicles of Narnia
+ "Queen of Morning"
Even afterwards, when she had returned home and much of her first-life as a queen had faded, she would always remember this: the bitter cold before morning, the heat of tears on her cheeks, Aslan's clipped fur beneath her hands.
And then the dawn.
This is an amazing story of Susan, and her bravery, and her heartbreak.
Tamora Pierce - Tortall series
+ "Letters From Rajmuat"
Message intercepted from Aly's pack Received at Pirate's Swoop May 16, 464 H.E.
Hi Da!
Ha, I guess your trainee picked the wrong message. Sorry about that. You didn't really want to read about our kitchen cutlery, though, did you? Better luck next time.
Love and kisses, Your Aly
This is a fun, funny story told in, well, letters, obviously. Aly isn't my favorite of the Tortall women, but she is quite interesting, and this is a nice continuation of her story, as well as a believable way for her to talk to her father.
Baby-Sitters Club
+ "Opening Night"
Janine takes a deep, shuddery breath that she lets out slowly. She once presented a complicated paper about her interpretation of fluid dynamics to an audience of tenured physics professors and she did it without sweating. She answered their questions and posed a few of her own, and received two job offers, valid whenever she graduated or even if she didn't. "It's obvious your creativity will only be stifled if you continue at school. Come work for us right away, and you'll have an experimental budget twice the size of your current scholarship." Nice to dream, but she had her heart set on the B.S. (now nicely framed in her office, so it was worth it), and her future -- and the future of the economy -- lay in computer science. Theoretical research grants go dry after a few years, but the internet is forever.
Oh, Janine. I love that last line there, and I love Janine here, so comfortable in her world, so uncomfortable in Claudia's.
+ "Queen of Morning"
Even afterwards, when she had returned home and much of her first-life as a queen had faded, she would always remember this: the bitter cold before morning, the heat of tears on her cheeks, Aslan's clipped fur beneath her hands.
And then the dawn.
This is an amazing story of Susan, and her bravery, and her heartbreak.
Tamora Pierce - Tortall series
+ "Letters From Rajmuat"
Message intercepted from Aly's pack Received at Pirate's Swoop May 16, 464 H.E.
Hi Da!
Ha, I guess your trainee picked the wrong message. Sorry about that. You didn't really want to read about our kitchen cutlery, though, did you? Better luck next time.
Love and kisses, Your Aly
This is a fun, funny story told in, well, letters, obviously. Aly isn't my favorite of the Tortall women, but she is quite interesting, and this is a nice continuation of her story, as well as a believable way for her to talk to her father.
Baby-Sitters Club
+ "Opening Night"
Janine takes a deep, shuddery breath that she lets out slowly. She once presented a complicated paper about her interpretation of fluid dynamics to an audience of tenured physics professors and she did it without sweating. She answered their questions and posed a few of her own, and received two job offers, valid whenever she graduated or even if she didn't. "It's obvious your creativity will only be stifled if you continue at school. Come work for us right away, and you'll have an experimental budget twice the size of your current scholarship." Nice to dream, but she had her heart set on the B.S. (now nicely framed in her office, so it was worth it), and her future -- and the future of the economy -- lay in computer science. Theoretical research grants go dry after a few years, but the internet is forever.
Oh, Janine. I love that last line there, and I love Janine here, so comfortable in her world, so uncomfortable in Claudia's.
