Sentences with phrase «historical fantasy not»

MaryAnn Johanson: My pick is A Little Chaos, a wonderful historical fantasy not about magic or dragons but a competent professional woman garden designer in 17th - century Paris.

Not exact matches

The Iliad and Beowulf were writing in the genre of fantasy... «Once upon a time inky, pinky and bod got into a boat» The bible contains poems, historical narrative, precise directions that is why you do not compare it to the Iliad.

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The film had great set design and art pieces, but it's not really like a blatantly fantastical fantasy — it is shot and depicted almost like a historical fiction with some bizarre creatures in it.

It complicates the film's relation to history, so thinly veiled at times (Thornton's James Carville, Emma Thompson's Hillary Clinton stand out in particular, but also Kathy Bates's conflation of Betsey Wright and Vincent Foster), but ultimately this is not a docudrama of historical recreation (like Oliver Stone's W. or the Jay Roach / Danny Strong HBO movies Recount and Game Change, let alone a fantasy of a Hawksian White House as in its most direct descendant, Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing).

There's been lots written about Anne but not much is in the historical record about Mary, and so the film is, in a sense, a fantasy about what she might have been like.

Not historical fantasy.

Yep, my friend started out as a fantasy writer, couldn't get anywhere despite selling some short stories and being very well received, and wound up writing historical m / m and fantasy in English.

As a bonus, we have Rebecca Senese's ten - story science fiction collection Tales of Possibilities; Thomas K. Carpenter's Revolutionary Magic, a historical fantasy and the first in the Dashkova Memoirs; Annie Reed's A Death in Cumberland, a moody police procedural; Nebula Award finalist Cat Rambo's Neither Here Nor There, a double collection of alt - world and real world fantasy stories; and last but not least, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith's The Slots of Saturn, the origin story for his fan - favorite superhero Poker Boy.

If you haven't read it, check out David Kudler's post on writing Risuko, The Magic of History: Writing historical fiction as fantasy.

Posted by Victoria Strauss We don't often do self - promotion here at Writer Beware — but yesterday was publication day for my young adult historical fantasy Passion Blue — a novel of art, astrology, and romance set in Renaissance Italy.

Although it's gorgeous, the bright colours implied fantasy, and it just wasn't conveying «historical mystery» enough.

Someone who's a big fan of YA fantasy novels probably isn't the best beta reader for your historical treatise on mid-century architecture.

This novel is a pleasure to dive into, although it's difficult to know where to place it on the literary spectrum - not exactly a historical novel and not exactly a fantasy, not quite a thriller (as advertised) nor a crime story.

Unlike traditional historical fiction, historical fantasy doesn't aim to be a perfect reflection of real life in the time and place in which it takes place.

They aren't exactly historical, fantasy, or science fiction, so what are they?

I highly recommend The Last Necromancer to all fans of fantasy, whether you think you like historical fiction or not.»

Death Doesn't Bargain is the second historical fantasy title in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Deadman's Cross series — available May 8th from Tor Books.

Several assorted other short stories that don't fit any of the above (and aren't yet published): a time travel story, a supers story, a solarpunk story set in the present day, a couple of pieces of historical fantasy set in our world.

If from this rebuttal we are expected to get it (if it is not obvious, I am on the skeptic side, we humans are o so arrogant in our analysis of historical fantasy), then scientific skepticism and method, and even basic logical argument are moot.