The dolphin ring link is particularly striking to me because I've always seen Turner as somewhat unique among modern writers - I don't think anyone else right now is writing stories quite like what she's writing.
She has always constellated strongly with Elizabeth E. Wein for me, especially Wein's cycle of Aksumite Arthuriana that I desperately want to see her finish one day. (She was in the middle of writing the novels that turned out to be the necessary scaffolding between the first book and its originally planned sequel and then the entire project went on hold for WWII and she's been in WWII ever since. The Winter Prince (1993) stands on its own, however, and is exceedingly worth reading if you have not. It's one of my favorite Arthurian novels and does a bunch of things I haven't seen any others do.)
I'd say D. K. Broster writes in the same mold, and some of Mary Renault's ancient Greek novels are similar.
When I discovered Broster last summer, I was surprised that I hadn't read her as a child, considering how much I grew up on Sutcliff and Renault. The link between Broster and Sutcliff can be confirmed. I don't know about a link between Broster and Renault, but I would be shocked, shocked if there weren't some link between Renault and Turner. Also in the mix is Diana Wynne Jones, whom Turner has acknowledged as an influence on her writing of gods. And Dunnett, but I have to take that one on faith, never having read any of the Lymond Chronicles myself.
(she did publish a book of short stories earlier)
Which as I recall gives absolutely no sign of the directions in which she was going to develop as a writer: I read it after The Thief and, okay, that happened? My memories suggest the stories were a little twee. I'm glad she got past it.
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Date: 2022-01-25 11:01 pm (UTC)She has always constellated strongly with Elizabeth E. Wein for me, especially Wein's cycle of Aksumite Arthuriana that I desperately want to see her finish one day. (She was in the middle of writing the novels that turned out to be the necessary scaffolding between the first book and its originally planned sequel and then the entire project went on hold for WWII and she's been in WWII ever since. The Winter Prince (1993) stands on its own, however, and is exceedingly worth reading if you have not. It's one of my favorite Arthurian novels and does a bunch of things I haven't seen any others do.)
I'd say D. K. Broster writes in the same mold, and some of Mary Renault's ancient Greek novels are similar.
When I discovered Broster last summer, I was surprised that I hadn't read her as a child, considering how much I grew up on Sutcliff and Renault. The link between Broster and Sutcliff can be confirmed. I don't know about a link between Broster and Renault, but I would be shocked, shocked if there weren't some link between Renault and Turner. Also in the mix is Diana Wynne Jones, whom Turner has acknowledged as an influence on her writing of gods. And Dunnett, but I have to take that one on faith, never having read any of the Lymond Chronicles myself.
(she did publish a book of short stories earlier)
Which as I recall gives absolutely no sign of the directions in which she was going to develop as a writer: I read it after The Thief and, okay, that happened? My memories suggest the stories were a little twee. I'm glad she got past it.