Science Fiction & Celtic Connections

[Arlen]

I'm an avid reader of the Outlander books. (Once I got by the dreadful inaccuracies and realised she had started writing them just to see if she could write a book.)
They're well written and interesting if dramatic and stressful.

I wish she would have included some kind of guide to pronunciation, though. I don't know Gaelic and when I tried to start a thread here on Gaelic pronunciation, it petered out pretty quickly.

She actually has a gaidhlig pronunciation section in her companion book The Outlandish companion, (Sold in the U.K. as Through the stones.)
That said, it only goes up to The fiery cross and isn't perfect.
She makes a lot of mistakes with the gaidhlig in the earlier books but met a native speaker later on who helped to correct her and now has a good few people doing that.
I tend to help folk out on the Livejournal Outlander fan communities with pronunciation when I can, but it might be worth a shot emailing her with the request of a pronunciation guide in the back of each book.


Other 'celtic' themed series I am a fan of are:
(These are mostly historical fiction/Speculative fiction with a bit of sci-fi and fantasty.)


The Song of Albion Trilogy by Stephen Lawhead.

The Camulod Chronicles by Jack Whyte

The Rigante series by David Gemmell

The Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell.



All of them are great books and a lot of fun to read with a lot of interesting things thrown in to make them individual.