Time to ask my brilliant reading lists for recs again!
I am rereading Lloyd Alexander's Westmark (followed by The Kestrel and The Beggar Queen). They are honestly the only fantasy* novels I can think of which are about common people bringing down the monarchy. (They're short YA novels, and I recommend them if you haven't read them.)
*They are fantasy in that they are set in a fictional country; there's no magic or religion mentioned, so it's a pretty pragmatic kind of fantasy. They do in some ways resonate pretty strongly with the French Revolution, though I wouldn't call them historical fantasy by any stretch of the imagination.
Fantasy and monarchies seem to go together well, or at least comfortably. But some of you may have guessed by now that I'm kind of bored with comfortable fantasy that's always about the same generic worlds and characters and stories.
Have you read any non-urban fantasy novels--secondary world or historical that are not about monarchies or empires? Maybe about tribal people with chiefs (they could be non-hereditary!), or about republics, or even parliamentary monarchies, or societies run by councils, or about people's revolutions like Westmark. You name it. Just not the so-prevalent bog-standard monarchies.
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*They are fantasy in that they are set in a fictional country; there's no magic or religion mentioned, so it's a pretty pragmatic kind of fantasy. They do in some ways resonate pretty strongly with the French Revolution, though I wouldn't call them historical fantasy by any stretch of the imagination.
Fantasy and monarchies seem to go together well, or at least comfortably. But some of you may have guessed by now that I'm kind of bored with comfortable fantasy that's always about the same generic worlds and characters and stories.
Have you read any non-urban fantasy novels--secondary world or historical that are not about monarchies or empires? Maybe about tribal people with chiefs (they could be non-hereditary!), or about republics, or even parliamentary monarchies, or societies run by councils, or about people's revolutions like Westmark. You name it. Just not the so-prevalent bog-standard monarchies.
There are
comments at Dreamwidth. Comments are welcome either place.