Mod post: theme suggestions
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readingthepastPlease suggest themes you'd like to see covered here! Cut and paste the following into a comment:
ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!
Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
What does it mean to run the theme?
1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.
You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.
ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!
Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:
What does it mean to run the theme?
1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.
You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.
Elizabethan SFF and alternate history
Date: 2009-06-09 06:48 pm (UTC)Prepared to run it: yes
Suggested books:
I was going to just say AHs but I couldn't find three good ones. So adding in SFF should help. I'm thinking anything speculative set in/around the Elizabethan period.
Kage Baker, "In the Garden of Iden"
Time-travelling cyborgs in Elizabethan England
Harry Turtledove, "Ruled Britannia"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruled_Britannia
(The Spanish Armada wins.)
Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett, "Armor of Light"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0915368293/
(Fixit: Sidney and Marlowe don't die. Also, magic works.)
Keith Roberts, "Pavane"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavane_(novel)
(Queen Elizabeth assassinated, protestant church in England destroyed)
Neil Gaiman, "1602"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0785110739/
(Marvel superheroes in 1602. Graphic novel.)
More here: http://www.osmond-riba.org/lis/ElizSFF.htm