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Medieval Reads: Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis - Medievalists.net

The 1992 science fiction gold standard for medieval history is, then, actually the gold standard for understanding how the North American centred science fiction world understood medieval history in that decade.

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Poison and Light

Renowned artist Grania, famed as a painter of light, arrives in a sleek space ship from Lost Earth, ready to embrace New Ceres and its Ne...

I have read this, SF crossed with fantasy, modern space faring versus 18th century traditionalism, power mad versus a resistance fighter. Recommended! (Available through Smashwords so far)

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Medieval Reads: Creating stories with Mary Stewart and Geoffrey of Monmouth - Medievalists.net

Mary Stewart’s rather well known Arthurian trilogy-with-extra-volumes used a sub-Roman British setting, and placed an entirely twelfth century story of Arthur into it.

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Medieval Reads: Susan Cooper and positioning oneself in relation to the past - Medievalists.net

Novels like The Dark is Rising call upon the Middle Ages in the way someone might hum a bit of a favourite tune as they walk along the street.

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Medieval Reads: The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L Sayers

So many elements of this novel link to the Middle Ages and yet, if you read it as a whodunit, it looks as if it’s contemporary for the time it was written.

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Medieval Reads: The Hound and the Falcon Trilogy, by Judith Tarr

What is so special about the Medievalist trilogy?

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Medieval Reads: The Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander

There are many varieties of fantasy Middle Ages, but they all have this path in common. The nature of those works and the genre of those works give us different visions of the Middle Ages.

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Medieval Reads: The Owl Service, by Alan Garner

The Owl Service is one of the books that dragged me into becoming a medieval historian and also persuaded me that understanding who people are in relation to their culture is so very important.