Echoes of Elfland Horns (Professionals standalone zine)
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| Title: | Echoes of Elfland Horns |
| Publisher: | Nut Hatch Collective |
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| Author(s): | Wally |
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| Date(s): | 1996 |
| Series?: | yes |
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| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| Language: | English |
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Echoes of Elfland Horns is a slash Professionals novel by Wally.
It is part of a trilogy. See Echoes of Elfland Horns.
It was published first as a standalone, then combined with Sparrow Through the Hall, and then as part of a trilogy with No Vanity.
Summary from Flyer
Bodie wakes from sleep to find himself in "a different earth." This certainly isn't the world he's accustomed to, but a mediaeval place where humans and tall elves live in uneasy semi-harmony, according to other customs, other laws. And here is Doyle ... not human, yes; royalty, yes; and under the shadow of the death penalty for a heinous crime of which he is innocent ... Bodie's self-appointed task is to prove him innocent, for he soon falls in love with Doyle. However, they both know that the stranger cannot belong in this strange land — he must leave. But the end comes more abruptly than they might have thought, when some force neither understands simply snatches Bodie out of this world. The plot is set to become curiouser still, because when Bodie wakes, it's to find that he possesses a man's silver chain...! Keep reading...[1]
Reactions and Reviews
Yesterday I read a short Nut Hatch Zine by Wally called "Echoes of Elfland Horns". (Okay, Mfae, Alex, quit gagging.) The title's from some poem by Tennyson. Anyway, I'm no Elf fan, god knows, but I have to say the idea was kind of interesting--a Bodie who's just left his 20th C merc job in Africa with some bitter memories and little trust, is thrown into some kind of time/universe shift and finds himself in Some Other Place. The "Ray" is a dying Elf who's been exiled for raping some boy. And, no, I wouldn't say this is one of my Top 100 stories or anything, but it was...a different take on the Elf thing. See, there's just a whole lot of 'different takes' in Pros fanfic, whether it's in the area of AU settings or in character exploration within the series setting. In my case, I feel that's why I'm still in Pros fandom after 11 years and why I was in S/H fandom for a year and a half. For me, although the eps are the core, the fanfic's the thing. [2]
[It is] very Au and a bit on the strange side but I like AU's and I like Wally's stories so I enjoyed [it]. [3]
References
- ^ "flyer". Archived from the original on 2004-10-23.
- ^ from Virgule-L, quoted anonymously (2 Mar 1996)
- ^ from CI5 Mailing List, quoted anonymously (6 Oct 1997)