For a while there, I was really into Elizabethan-themed (or similar - IIRC, one was an English Civil War-era piece) fantasy novels: magik and fey folk w/ courtiers and rapiers, etc. Most of them had one common failing: glaring anachronisms, usually in the turn of a phrase. Others were simply bad fantasy novels trying to hide behind SCA garb...
Have you read any of George Garrett's stuff? Among other things, he's written Elizabethan/Jacobean mysteries that I've really enjoyed. IMO, he definitely did it right as far as keeping the period feel without bogging down the story line.
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Magellan? Hmmm... Intriguing...
For a while there, I was really into Elizabethan-themed (or similar - IIRC, one was an English Civil War-era piece) fantasy novels: magik and fey folk w/ courtiers and rapiers, etc. Most of them had one common failing: glaring anachronisms, usually in the turn of a phrase. Others were simply bad fantasy novels trying to hide behind SCA garb...
Have you read any of George Garrett's stuff? Among other things, he's written Elizabethan/Jacobean mysteries that I've really enjoyed. IMO, he definitely did it right as far as keeping the period feel without bogging down the story line.
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