Tag Archives: historical fantasy

Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun

Posted on 25th May 2023 by Paul Weimer

Western education, when it comes to the history of China, can be rather scanty in my experience. If you are lucky, you get a list of Chinese dynasties with little context as to what they are and how they came … Continue reading →

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Judith Tarr’s Devil’s Bargain, House of War, and Pride of Kings

Posted on 13th January 2022 by Elizabeth Vail

While Judith Tarr’s novels Devil’s Bargain, House of War, and Pride of Kings are supposedly historical fantasies dealing with the Crusades, one of the most bloody, savage, and violent episodes of our history, the books are disappointingly tame, boring, naïve, … Continue reading →

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Kage Baker’s Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key

Posted on 4th November 2016 by Robert

Kage Baker’s short novel, Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key, is not a sequel so much as a continuation of the adventures of John James, fugitive, sometime pirate, and free-lance muscle, who was introduced in her novella “The Maid … Continue reading →

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Futaro Yamada and Masaki Segawa’s Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls, Vols. 1-5 (trans. David Ury)

Posted on 20th October 2016 by Robert

Basilisk is Masaki Segawa’s manga adaptation of Futaro Yamada’s 1958 historical novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls. It counts mostly as “historical fantasy,” and as rendered in the manga version, the story line is fairly spare while the “surround,” the visual … Continue reading →

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