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Tag Archives: historical fiction
Anthony Harvey’s The Lion in Winter (1968), and Andrei Konchalovsky’s The Lion in Winter (2003)
Aurora White wrote this review. In 1968 MGM Studios teamed up with James Goldman to adapt his play The Lion in Winter for the screen. Goldman’s play had been a recent flop, running for a mere eighty-three performances on Broadway … Continue reading
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Tagged English history, film, historical fiction
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Neal Stephenson’s The System Of The World
… I think it’s clear why science fiction offers scope for people who want to explore the … great dramas of ancient history but don’t want to write historical fiction. Because if you have an enormous galactic empire, you can … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, science fiction
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Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana’s Pretty Boy Floyd, Michael Wallis’s Pretty Boy, and Jeffery S. King’s The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd
Craig Clarke wrote this review. “There’s no excuse for dressing like trash in this line of work.” – Charles Arthur Floyd in McMurtry and Ossana’s Pretty Boy Floyd When did criminals become our national heroes? Names like Bonnie and Clyde, … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, history
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Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion
“When a thing such as wax, or gold, or silver, turns liquid from heat, we say that it has fused,” Eliza said to her son, “and when such liquids run together and mix, we say they are con-fused.” “Papa says … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, science fiction
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Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s Burning Distance
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s Burning Distance is a new volume from an experienced and multi-talented hand. Sold as a thriller, and dealing with events surrounding, before and shortly after the original Gulf War there is little in the way of avoiding calling … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, thriller
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Lindsey Davis’ Fatal Legacy
Fatal Legacy is the latest in Lindsey Davis’ Flavia Albia series. Once again featuring our lead working as a private investigator of sorts, the book starts as one of the lower stakes cases she has encountered. However, like many such … Continue reading
Rebecca Cantrell’s A Night of Long Knives, and David Downing’s Stettin Station
The advance readers’ copies of both of these novels arrived in the Green Man mailroom at about the same time. I have read and reviewed earlier installments in both series. Both are suspenseful tales of the lives of journalists living … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, mystery, noir detective fiction
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Nicholas Griffin’s Dizzy City
This book arrived in the Green Man mailroom some time ago as an uncorrected proof. The brownies put it into my review pile I think because I’ve reviewed other books about people who arrive in New York City and find … Continue reading
Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver
Ordinarily, when you read about the great discoveries of the Enlightenment and the lives of the men who made them, you get quite a sterile view of those lives. In Wikipedia’s entry on Isaac Newton, for instance: “In June 1661, … Continue reading
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Tagged historical fiction, Neal Stephenson
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Anita Amirrezvani’s The Blood of Flowers
Toward the end of The Blood of Flowers, the unnamed narrator and main character says, “All our labors were in service of beauty, but sometimes it seemed as if every thread in a carpet had been dipped in the blood … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, historical fiction, Young Adult fiction
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