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Nobody has to like modern retellings but negative generalizing about the literature of your peers is gross. Be specific about what you do and don't like. Some of the best stuff is unknown because it's niche! I've provided scans for all of these books to read. They're quite short as well! Enjoy!
Exiled From Camelot by Cherith Baldry
Blessed Bastard by Ruth P. M. Lehmann
A Camelot Triptych by Norris Lacy
Parzival and the Stone From Heaven by Lindsay Clarke
Gawain by Gwen Rowley
"Now they were just a happy family: the king, the queen, an their little cretin!" Something, clearly, had to be done. [...] Eventually, and at first hesitantly, Merlin started speaking against Mordred, telling Arthur as much as he dared about Mordred's lack of qualities required of a king. After a while, he decided that he had to go farther, and one day, when he sensed that Arthur was in a receptive or at least pliant mood, he moved the conversation around the circumstances of Mordred's conception and birth.
Merlin trying to separate Arthur and Mordred and the little quiet family that distracts Arthur from ambition and ruling.
from “Merlin’s Tale” in “A Camelot Triptych” by Norris Lacy
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Merlin and Mordred
Reading "Camelot Trptych" by Norris Lacy and the first story is about Merlin ... and Merlin is such a dick. And Mordred is lovely.
Norris Lacy, you god of arthurian legends, who edited so many essays and the translation of the Lancelot-Grail you.
"But what if he [Arthur] kills you?" asked John. "It doesn't matter, provided I kill him, too. And I can do that. All those years I was learning to fight and joust and ride aren't wasted after all: I couldn't impress my father then, but I imagine he'll find me impressive enough now. Arthur should have more dread of me than I of him." The last sentence was spoken with a small, perhaps ironic, smile on Mordred's face. Then, after a short pause, he continued, "So Arthur has to die. And I suppose that means that I have to as well. If I do, then it's a personal sacrifice, or a political act, or a matter of principle. If I don't, I'll simply be a traitor or a murderer. And I am neither.
Norris Lacy’s short story “Mordred Manuscript”
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