The Summer War

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The Summer War, Naomi Novik, 2025 novella. Novik is such a master of taking her fannish enthusiasms and figuring out how to translate them to original fic in ways that don't rely on you already being "pre-sold" by their fannish context. This is a remix of her Game of Thrones stuff with that one Merlin fic but if you have no idea what I'm talking about you won't be missing anything at all, it will just feel like a fun, satisfying fantasy novella.