[MR] a MURDER AT THE WAR! [pennsic]

[E L Wimett]

Yup.  And you can get into wonderful discussions/fights/brawls discussing 
which character is which in the early (i.e., first 5 years) Society in the 
Bay area.  (It's a roman a clef.)

Alisoun who has done this while drinking with some of the (theoretical) 
participants. . .

On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 2:16 PM, Brett W McCoy 
[SMTP:bmccoy at chapelperilous.net] wrote:
> Siegfried Sebastian Faust wrote:
> > The only other one that I know of, is the in the 'middle' of a series.
> >
> > It's the 'wizardry' series by Rick Cook.
> >
> > One of the books in the middle: The Wizardry Compiled, is 'rife' with
> > SCA influences, meetings, and goings-on.   Quite funny in many areas as 

> > well, as SCA folks are pitted against 'real' medieval times.
> >
> > It reads well by itself without the rest of the series.
>
> One of the most famous books inspired by the SCA is Peter S. Beagle's
> _Folk of the Air_, which describes an medievalist organization called
> "The League for Archaic Pleasures", which has tournaments to decide who
> will be king by right of arms, and it also describes a big war event,
> where a bad guy conjures up real medieval warriors to fight for him.
> It's a pretty good read, almost as good as _The Last Unicorn_.
>
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