Poul Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest is a fantasy alternate history tale. The main characters appear to be living in medieval England (kings, swords, etc.), but there are railroads and some primitive guns. At the same time, there are magical fairies and the like, lurking in the shadows/5(56). A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson is a fantasy / sci fi novel that has a structure not unlike a play, with scenes introduced before each. This is Heinlein’s Glory Road multiverse ideal coupled with Anderson’s own ideas of future / alternate history and structured /5(69). Poul Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest is a fantasy alternate history tale. The main characters appear to be living in medieval England (kings, swords, etc.), but there are railroads and some primitive guns. At the same time, there are magical fairies and the like, lurking in the shadows/5(62).
A Midsummer Tempest is a fantasy novel by Poul Anderson. Advertisement: In Julius Caesar, a clock chimes. Chiming clocks were a medieval invention — at least in our world. Anderson deduced that in the world where William Shakespeare is the Great Historian, technology advanced more quickly than in ours, and so tells a story where the. A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson; Neil Gaiman's Sandman episodes named after the two plays. Anderson presents a sequel to the plays whereas Gaiman informs us that the first performance of the Dream was to Auberon's court and shows us how The Tempest came to be written. After A Midsummer Tempest, read Anderson's "House Rule" and "Losers' Night.". A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson is a fantasy / sci fi novel that has a structure not unlike a play, with scenes introduced before each. This is Heinlein's Glory Road multiverse ideal coupled with Anderson's own ideas of future / alternate history and structured and shaped as an homage to Shakespeare. There are some fun cameos by characters from his novels Three Hearts and Three Lions.
Nominated for the World Fantasy Award and winner of the Mythopoeic Award, Poul Anderson’s A Midsummer Tempest is a titanic achievement—a delightful alternate-history fantasy that brings the fictional worlds of Shakespeare’s plays to breathtaking life with style, wit, and unparalleled imagination. Read Full Overview. A Midsummer Tempest was published in , when Anderson was entering his long heyday, which spanned the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. My own copy is the hardcover Severn House edition of , which was a reissue of the Orbit edition. on A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson. Book/ Series: A Midsummer Tempest by Poul Anderson (Operation Otherworld Series Book #3, but can be read as standalone) Published: Book Tropes: Alternative English History/ Fantasy. Recommended for fans of: Shakespeare (esp. The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream), R.L. Stevenson (esp.
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