Theme: Elizabethan SFF and alternate history Prepared to run it: yes Suggested books:
I was going to just say AHs but I couldn't find three good ones. So adding in SFF should help. I'm thinking anything speculative set in/around the Elizabethan period.
Kage Baker, "In the Garden of Iden" Time-travelling cyborgs in Elizabethan England
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Elizabethan SFF and alternate history
Date: 2009-06-09 06:48 pm (UTC)Prepared to run it: yes
Suggested books:
I was going to just say AHs but I couldn't find three good ones. So adding in SFF should help. I'm thinking anything speculative set in/around the Elizabethan period.
Kage Baker, "In the Garden of Iden"
Time-travelling cyborgs in Elizabethan England
Harry Turtledove, "Ruled Britannia"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruled_Britannia
(The Spanish Armada wins.)
Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett, "Armor of Light"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0915368293/
(Fixit: Sidney and Marlowe don't die. Also, magic works.)
Keith Roberts, "Pavane"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavane_(novel)
(Queen Elizabeth assassinated, protestant church in England destroyed)
Neil Gaiman, "1602"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0785110739/
(Marvel superheroes in 1602. Graphic novel.)
More here: http://www.osmond-riba.org/lis/ElizSFF.htm