Is the Jasper Tudor book for general interest or more research?
It's sort of both - mostly general interest, but also for mild research as I got into the period by watching the BBC 1972 serial Shadow of the Tower, which covers the reign of Henry VII (or most of it) and then writing fic for it and sometimes for 15th C requests for Yuletide as a result. So I have collected a few others now as well as the Jasper book. I was keen to get more on Jasper, as he's very interesting in lots of ways, but this one was not so much original research and the author had not edited anything down! (I quite enjoyed the amusingly unashamed YAY WELSH bias though. Not one for Ricardians!) I haven't heard of those plays, though - they sound interesting. When did they come out?
Like you, I want to try the Vorkosigans, but it wasn't until I read your comment upthread that I realised they might be hard to find over here.
I'm not sure if they're very hard to find, or if it just depends where you live. I should imagine places with large student populations like Oxford might well have more SFF floating about the second hand bookshops and libraries. Our library service is tiny, though, and not well equipped with anything these days, let alone SFF.
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It's sort of both - mostly general interest, but also for mild research as I got into the period by watching the BBC 1972 serial Shadow of the Tower, which covers the reign of Henry VII (or most of it) and then writing fic for it and sometimes for 15th C requests for Yuletide as a result. So I have collected a few others now as well as the Jasper book. I was keen to get more on Jasper, as he's very interesting in lots of ways, but this one was not so much original research and the author had not edited anything down! (I quite enjoyed the amusingly unashamed YAY WELSH bias though. Not one for Ricardians!) I haven't heard of those plays, though - they sound interesting. When did they come out?
Like you, I want to try the Vorkosigans, but it wasn't until I read your comment upthread that I realised they might be hard to find over here.
I'm not sure if they're very hard to find, or if it just depends where you live. I should imagine places with large student populations like Oxford might well have more SFF floating about the second hand bookshops and libraries. Our library service is tiny, though, and not well equipped with anything these days, let alone SFF.