yuletide | 2021 Yuletide Promo Post

Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

Suggested form to use:

FANDOM NAME:
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT:
WHERE CAN I FIND IT (optional):

(Bonus optional: What are you thinking of requesting for this?)

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Useful tips (Not required, but helps people if they want to engage with your fandom!):

- Mention what form of media the canon is. Is it a comic miniseries? Is it a twenty season tv show? Is it a book? Is it a twitter feed?
- Is it standalone or part of a series?
- It's best to make each fandom its own entry with its own title in the subject line! That makes it easier for people to find/see what you're promoting! Don't worry about 'spam', that is the entire point of this entry and you're using it exactly as intended.

For reference, last year's promo post!

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FANDOM NAME: Traveller in Black - John Brunner
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: These are five short stories by John Brunner that feature the Traveller in Black, a mysterious figure whose goal is to bring order to the universe and vanquish chaos, in a world that may be a forerunner of our own, but with magic and chaos and demons in place of the world ruled by order and reason as we know it.

The traveller (who has many names, but a single nature, and is usually referred to only as "the traveller") does this by his power/stricture: he is bound to grant any wish he hears. "As you wish, so be it," is his signature line, and he uses granting of these wishes (sometimes unwary wishes, sometimes wishes that the wisher thinks are thought out) to vanquish chaos. And he does so usually in a way that also tends to help the downtrodden and innocent as well as give the greedy and cruel their just deserts. There's a neatness, a sense of practical economy, to the traveller's solutions that I really enjoy, especially coupled with the atmospheric nature of the stories and the way that they weave in various ideas like the nature of luck, or what is the way that rational thought is to be communicated.

Note that these stories could easily be classed as horror -- I mostly think of the elegance of the traveller's solutions when I think of them, but there are a few extremely disquieting images described in the stories (especially "Break the Door of Hell," which is... honestly basically straight horror. But there are also a few disquieting images in "Dread Empire" and at least one rather disquieting one in "The Wager Lost by Winning.")

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?: The complete stories are, right now, only $1.99 on Amazon in the US! Used copies are also available but NOT from Amazon (unless you want to pay $$$ for them) -- AbeBooks and Thriftbooks are a better bet here.