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I got a query from a friend of mine asking for a list of sf/fantasy novels set in the time of Elizabeth I. He thought of two, Pavane by Keith Roberts and Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon by Lisa Goldstein. I knew about the Goldstein already, and to those I'd add (at least partially, one story thread) Scholars of the Night, by John M. Ford. Anything else?

Elizabethan fantasy?

Date: 2006-01-09 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
_The Princess in the Pigpen_ by JAne Resh Thomas--I'm sure this is one of many time travel stories back to 16th and 17th C England, or actually (in this case) from then to 20th C Iowa. A much-praised and apparently beloved book (which I haven't read since I was in grade school, but which I remember as being very good) is Alison Uttley's _A Traveler in Time_, which occurs during Elizabeth's reign, though I don't recall if she appears in the book. I think Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots does. There have also been a number of books involving time travel to act in Shakespeare's company, for instance Susan Cooper's _King of Shadows_, but there are several books in a sequence by someone else in the last couple of decades that are similar, I think. ANd of course, Pam Dean's _Tam Lin_ has several characters in the 20th C. who date back to Shakespeare's company. --David Lenander

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