Yuletide

[redbird]

A few recommendations from the Yuletide fanfic exchange:

For Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed: world-building/early history of Annares, set between "The Day Before the Revolution" and the novel:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletidemadness2021/works/35856979, by Luzula

For her The Left Hand of Darkness: world-building and backstory about the first Ekumen investigators on Gethen

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2021/works/35769040, by Serenity_Ribbon

Some more world-building, for Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor, with the summary "A day in the life of the Untheileneise kitchens." I think this one works without knowing the canon.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35754262, by Tequila_Mockingbird

And a short post-canon story for Arkady Martine's Teixcalaan books:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2021/works/35712937, by wolfraven80

ETA Jan. 1: I have added author names, now that they've been revealed.

Comments

[otter]

I need to re-read The Dispossessed. It's been at least a few decades, and that's too long.

[readerjane]

Thank you!

[replyhazy]

Goblin Emperor fic! I love it! Thanks.

[kiya]

Thank you for the recs. It never occurred to me that there might be Le Guin fic but of course there is.

[redbird]

Le Guin didn't want people writing fic in her worlds/with her characters. I respected that, and didn't look at, much less recommend, those fics during her lifetime.

I'm comfortable doing so now, because it was a matter of respect for the author and her feeling that these were her creations, not anything that would be likely to affect royalties.

There are also a few Always Coming Home fics on AO3l, I think from a previous Yuletide.

[athenais]

Goblin Emperor fic is the only fic I read, so thank you!