I'm oddly the opposite. Historicals aren't really my genre. I particularly hate the medieval period. Not quite sure why. It's in part the style - the writer feels this need to write in the dialect or style of the time. It's why I can't get myself to read Ellen Kushner - that time period tends to turn me off. Women were treated horrendously back then.
There are exceptions. But not many.
So I tend to lean towards futuristic tales or alternate universe contemporary. Harrison's novel takes place in an alternate reality - where Napolean won the Napoleanic Wars and half of humanity was wiped out by a virus.
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Date: 2011-03-23 10:21 pm (UTC)There are exceptions. But not many.
So I tend to lean towards futuristic tales or alternate universe contemporary. Harrison's novel takes place in an alternate reality - where Napolean won the Napoleanic Wars and half of humanity was wiped out by a virus.