Sunset Over Sherwood
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| Title: | Sunset Over Sherwood |
| Publisher: | Dragonbane Press |
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| Author(s): | Debbie Linn |
| Cover Artist(s): | Debbie Linn |
| Illustrator(s): | Debbie Linn |
| Date(s): | 1988 |
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| Fandom: | Robin of Sherwood |
| Language: | English |
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Sunset Over Sherwood is a gen 60-page Robin of Sherwood novel written and illustrated by Debbie Linn.
From a Flyer
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HEROES GROW OLD? WHERE DO THEY GO AND WHO TAKES THEIR PLACE?
..."You're gonna leave Sherwood fer a girl? I don' believe i'."
a flyer"It's not that, Will," [1] Robert faced him squarely...
... "Go home, all of you. Go back home and stop acting like you're starting to believe your own overblown legends. Give it up." Marian turned to go, but Will spun her around to face him.
"Give up? Like you did? 'iding out 'ere in the abbey, afraid ta face life. Afraid ta face the truf about yerself, turning' yer life into a lie? 'at's no' wha' we were abou'."
"Pretending to be twenty years old again isn't a lie?"...
...The light was dim, but Marion realised instantly that the visitor standing across the room was not Robert at all... The hooded figure across the room was like a vision out of her dreams, tall, dark and willowy; his dark hair poked out from the edges of dark green hood. He was dressed for the forest, and a strange sense of otherness, a fey, sylvan quality enveloped him... Her throat went dry as a voice in her mind murmured "Nothing is forgotten..."
... "Herne," Robert prayed silently. "Herne, promise me this, that if we win here in Wickham you will choose another to be your son."
"There is another. He is nearly ready, when his time is come I will call him to me..."
ONE DAY, SHERWOOD WILL CALL TO ROBIN HOOD AGAIN.
Editorial
Sunset over Sherwood is my first novella. It came about through a little speculation on my part. I wanted to know what would happen to Robin and the wolfsheads once they started getting on in years. Just what sort of a future is there in robbing the rich and giving to the poor, anyway? The logical answer is that eventually they would be captured or killed. But we can't let our heroes get caught can we? Of course not. So I decided to write a little story about where they were thirty years later. Sort of a "what ever happened to" kind of thing. It was largely inspired by "The Seven Samaurai", with a touch of Frank Miller’s "Dark Knight" thrown in.
I’m rather new to fandom, being shanghaied into the genre by getting myself suckered into doing stories and illos for Albion.
- 1. In the process of watching several episodes to draw from, I wound up getting hooked on Robin of Sherwood. Hooked enough to start attending conventions, and even doing my own zine. (well, half mine.) But I’m hot complaining. Fandom has become a welcome addition to my life, bringing me many wonderful new friends, and broadening my horizons considerably. Consequently, I would like to dedicate, this, my first major effort in fandom, to the two people who got me into it in the first place, Helen Avry and Laura Chevening. "Sunset" was originally intended for Albion #2, in fact I started on it before Albion #1 was published, but time and space and other impracticalities prevented, and so I decided to go for a novella. At any rate, this novella goes out to the two that started it all, Helen and Laura (ever feel like you’ve created a monster?).
