Georgette Heyer - Frederica

A new Heyer release.

https://www.foliosociety.com/row/frederica.html

Oh this looks stunning!! Thank you so much for sharing this because I didn't see FS sharing anything about it! It is sad though that the price has been increasing with each Heyer release (Venetia used to be $64.95 and Arabella was $70 — all three Heyer books are now $80 each).

Agreed, good to see the line continuing!

The autumn colection starts to appear. Two slots already used...

I really enjoyed Venetia, so I'll grab this and Arabella in due course.

>3 Shadekeep: >5 gmacaree:

By the way, I have a question for anyone who has read one or more of the FS Heyer editions:

Venetia has so far been the only Heyer book done by FS that I hadn't read before so I went ahead and read the FS edition when it came out (and I loved every moment), but I noticed that each time after I had finished a reading session, the orange oval with the letter 'V' on the spine as well as on the cover would become slightly more dotted or spotted. I assumed opening and closing the book during my sessions resulted in cracking or losing some of this orange color material on the spine, and/or my fingers must've done something similar to the spine and cover since I believe I held the book as I read it rather than reading it on a table, but this is my only FS book which became slightly marred after I read it so I was just wondering if anyone else experienced this or if I just wasn't careful enough with it?

I won't get to experiment myself until FS publishes a Heyer I haven't read since I am not often in the mood to re-read, but I'll try a tabletop read next time so see if that prevents the effect.

EDIT: Added pics —

>7 BooksFriendsNotFood: I never noticed until now, but my copy is also like this after reading. Doesn't bother me at all though

>8 gmacaree: Good to know, thank you!

Truly amazing that its not on any of their socials 😑

According to the FS website this novel has 16 pages. More likely to be 316 pages.

>11 wcarter:

I've alerted FS.

Edit: Now corrected, 416 pages.

>7 BooksFriendsNotFood: if this is caused by rubbing then you can help to safeguard against it by wrapping your book in archival Mylar/Durable/polyester film.

There are various ways to do this with varying degrees of work and complexity, but you can get the basic idea from this video on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/c8ZQiiWz83s

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For those familiar with these Heyer books, is there a recommended starting point for a neophyte?

>13 ubiquitousuk: If you're looking at the ones which have FS editions specifically, I'd rank them in the following order beginning with most enjoyed personally: Arabella, Venetia, Frederica. Heyer's dialogue and writing style is such a joy and results in so much laughter. (I've listed Frederica last because I remember the second half boring me (plus it's quite long); many people love this book though so I do hope to revisit it sometime to see whether I enjoy it more the second time around.)

Outside of the FS editions, the following are some of the most fun ones / my favorites (not in any order): Faro's Daughter; Sylvester, or The Wicked Uncle; These Old Shades.

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I'm more of a reader (addict?) than an intentional collector - I love touching the pretty books and admiring their surface textures - so only my Goldsboro and some Broken Binding books have mylar which feels slightly too blasphemous to remove since it came with it. 😅

I've definitely seen both of your mylar videos though! Your latest vid also nearly tempted me to add the FS Shackleton's Boat Journey to my wish list before I was able to restrain myself haha!

>14 BooksFriendsNotFood: Thanks for the input. I have never really given the Heyer books a second glance. But seeing people discuss them with enthusiasm makes me think I should take a closer look.

>15 ubiquitousuk: When I read my first Heyer I'd assumed that she'd be best appreciated by fans of Jane Austen and historical romance, but interestingly, I found out that the author has a large following among science-fiction readers and writers.*

Either way, I hope you enjoy her work if you ever end up reading one of her books!

*Sources:
• https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/9h12q0/georgette_heyer_books_are_being_r...
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctv15d818n.13.pdf?acceptTC=true&coverpage... (I have definitely not read this whole thing — I am going off of the first and last paragraphs of the introduction lol.)

I have Arabella and Venetia, and i was hopimg for the next one to be bright too. A nice green would have been lovely.

The boring blue is a tad disappointing.

I have only read Arabella so far, but i found it really humorous and well written. It wasn't my favourite read ever, but it was fun.

If Venetia turns out good too, i would like to get Frederica. I just wish it wasn't this dull denim blue.

>16 BooksFriendsNotFood: as a fact I ended up reading Venetia because Heyer's books are a big inspiration in the Vorkosigan Saga, one of the most awarded sci-fi series of all time.

>18 dyhtstriyk: That’s really cool!

>13 ubiquitousuk: The Grand Sophy is a firm favorite, as is These Old Shades and Devil's Cub.

>18 dyhtstriyk: the Vorkosigan Saga is a set of love FS to publish.

>21 Juniper_tree:

It's not FS and not illustrated, but NESFA Press have published nice quality hardcover editions of part of the Vorkosigan series. (Those that didn't get any other hardcover release.) And you can get them signed by the author from Uncle Hugo's, a really nice independent book seller. I bought the complete set from them and was very happy with it.

http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/ah-bujold-lois.php

>22 SF-72: I echo this, I bought the set a couple of years ago at the OP’s recommendation and they are very nice.

>21 Juniper_tree:
>22 SF-72:
>23 RRCBS:

I have the set (excluding Ethan of Athos and Falling Free). Very well made. If you want the rest of the books in decent editions you can get the Easton signed first editions, but there would be some still missing: Memory, Cryoburn, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance and Gentleman Jole.

There's also a lovely edition of Bujold's fantasy novel, The Hallowed Hunt, that was put out by Hill House Books. Unfortunately they went out of business shortly thereafter and thus never published the rest of the Chalion series (and why they decided to start with book 3 is beyond me), but Hallowed Hunt stands alone from the rest of the series anyway, being set in a different country and era.

>25 ambyrglow:

Thank you for mentioning that edition. I bought a copy, though it will be a while until it will arrive here.

>26 SF-72: Enjoy! I'm looking forward to rereading the book in that edition eventually, but it will have to be at home when I do--it's a lap-sized volume.

The idea of Georgette Heyer in Space is too difficult to resist and I have bought the first couple for my Kindle (I think - reading order looks tortuous) and will let you know how I get on. She seems to write in bulk, doesn't she?

>28 red_guy: Here's the reading order for her novels, written by Bujold herself.

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/22803928-bujold-reading-order-guide-...

She is prolific, yes, though lately she is mainly focused on writing novellas for her fantasy series set in the Four Gods world. She doesn't have any other Vorkosigan novel on the horizon.

The books that seem more like 'Heyer in space' are Shards of Honor (the first) but especially A Civil Campaign (which is the 11th or 13th, I didn't count well). That one is like a long payoff for the series, though there are still some four books set afterwards.

>29 dyhtstriyk: Thanks. That's a useful resource. From descriptions here, the books sound as though they have something in common with Michael Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time series, in that the Fantasy/SF background is like a stage set in front of which the characters play out what you might call eternal dramas. Iain M. Banks does this too (e.g. Inversions).
Does that make sense and am I on the right track?

>30 red_guy: I wouldn't be sure. Of Moorcock I've read only the first Elric and Bujold's fantasy (i.e. The Curse of Chalion) isn't very similar. The only marginal similarity with the Vorkosigan saga is that the MC has a disability.

As per Banks, I've only read Consider Phlebas and the Vorkosigan saga is not like it.