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First posted to the web on August 1, 2006
Last update to book list on October 14, 2008:
Inspired by a request from Peg Kerr, and my own reading habits.
Contents:
Definitions and Criteria:
The following rules determine a work's qualifications for inclusion:
- Work must have been published within my lifetime (1970 or later).
- Professionally published works or prepublication works by professional authors only. I'm not scouring the web for fanfic.
- Must be a work of fiction. I will not include avant-garde theories or roleplaying sourcebooks.
- Must be set (at least in large part) in England or Scotland.
- Fantastic analogues do not count (e.g. Moorcock's Gloriana).
- Must be set (at least in large part) sometime within the reigns of Mary I and James I, 1553 - 1625. [I'm using a generous definition of period.]
- Does not count works that merely reference the period but do not have at least one scene during these times.
- For now, I'm excluding stories about long-lived characters who recall memories from period, or modern characters dealing with past lives or reincarnation.
- Must include some fantastic element within the story: SF or fantasy.
- Does not count if the only SFF element is a time-travel plot-device to bring protagonists into period. There are some extremely good stories of this type (see my Elizabethan Theatre fiction list for several) but not for this list.
- The same holds for protagonists of extreme longevity or immortality (including vampires), if that's the only fantastic element.
- Alternate histories can be considered fantastic settings, even if they have no further fantasy elements (e.g. Ruled Britannia).
- Within the listings table, I'm defining the alternate history genre as one where the timestream has been altered before the story begins. Changes that occur within the story do not count.
- Authorship differences alone do not count as an alternate universe. Same thing goes for Marlowe surviving Deptford.
- Alternate histories which diverge during period, but are set later (e.g. Pavane) do not count.
- For now, I'm excluding media tie-in works, such as Doctor Who novels.
I've designed these rules to keep the list a managable project. If you disagree with any or think they will be an obstacle to the list's usability, feel free to dispute them in the comments.
The List:
Click the column header to sort:
| Title | Author | Year | Format | Genre | Audience | Comments | Lis has read? |
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| The Perilous Gard | Elizabeth Marie Pope | 1974 | novel | fantasy | YA | | Yes |
| The Armor of light | Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett | 1988 | novel | fantasy; alternate history | adult | Premise: Both Philip Sidney and Marlowe survived.
one of my favorite books | Yes |
| Snow White and Rose Red | Patricia C. Wrede | 1989 | novel | fantasy | adult | Premise: Classic fairytale, involving Doctor Dee and Ed Kelley. | Yes |
| Sandman #19: "Midsummer night's dream" | Neil Gaiman | 1990 | comic book | fantasy | adult | Collected in the Dream country GN. | Yes |
| The Spiral dance | Rodrigo García y Robertson | 1991 | novel | fantasy | adult | | No |
| Strange devices of the sun and moon | Lisa Goldstein | 1993 | novel | fantasy | adult | | Yes |
| "Heart of Whitenesse" | Howard Waldrop | 1997 | novelette | alternate history | adult | Premise: Kit Marlowe investigates Johan Faustus | Yes |
| In the garden of Iden | Kage Baker | 1998 | novel | SF | adult | First novel in The Company series; set during Mary Tudor's reign. | Yes | |
| Cold Iron | Sophie Masson | 1998 | novel | fantasy | YA | Alternate title: Malkin. | No |
| The Sterkarm handshake | Susan Price | 2000 | novel | SF | YA | | No |
| Guardian of the vision | Irene Radford | 2001 | novel | fantasy; sequel | adult | Book 3 of the Merlin's descendants series. | No |
| Ill met by moonlight | Sarah A. Hoyt | 2001 | novel | fantasy | adult | | Yes |
| Losing the plot | Annie Dalton | 2002 | novel | fantasy | children | | No |
| Ruled Britannia | Harry Turtledove | 2002 | novel | alternate history | adult | Premise: Spanish-occupied London nine years after the English lost to the Armada. | Yes |
| The Alchemist's door | Lisa Goldstein | 2002 | novel | fantasy | adult | Premise: Dual focus on Doctor Dee and Rabbi Judah Loew. | Yes |
| All night awake | Sarah A. Hoyt | 2002 | novel | fantasy | adult | Sequel to Ill met by moonlight. | Yes |
| Guardian of the promise | Irene Radford | 2003 | novel | fantasy; sequel | adult | Book 4 of the Merlin's descendants series. | No |
| 1602 | Neil Gaiman | 2003 | comic book | fantasy; super | adult | Premise: Marvel superheroes of 1963 in the Elizabethan era. | Yes |
| The Tempestuous Voyage of Hopewell Shakepeare | Sophie Masson | 2003 | novel | fantasy | YA | | No |
| "This Tragic glass" | Elizabeth Bear | 2004 | short story | SF | adult | Collected in The Chains you refuse; also available at SciFiction. | Yes |
| This scepter'd isle | Mercedes Lackey & Roberta Gellis | 2004 | novel | fantasy | adult | Part of the SERRAted Edge universe. | No |
| The Queen's fool | Philippa Gregory | 2004 | novel | magical realism | adult | Premise: Lead character has the "gift" of sometimes seeing the future; set during Mary Tudor's reign. | Yes |
| Any man so daring | Sarah A. Hoyt | 2004 | novel | fantasy; sequel | adult | Third book in Ill met by moonlight trilogy. | Yes |
| A Sterkarm kiss | Susan Price | 2004 | novel | SF; sequel | YA | Sequel to The Sterkarm handshake. | No |
| Ill met by moonlight | Mercedes Lackey & Roberta Gellis | 2005 | novel | fantasy; sequel | adult | Sequel to This scepter'd isle. | No |
| Midnight never come | Marie Brennan | 2008 | novel | fantasy | adult | | Yes |
| Ink and steel | Elizabeth Bear | 2008 | novel | fantasy | adult | | Yes |
| Hell and earth | Elizabeth Bear | 2008 | novel | fantasy; sequel | adult | Sequel to Ink and steel. | Yes |
And that's all I've found so far.
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