Tag Archives: King Arthur

Bookshelf: Airships of Camelot

Posted on October 23, 2015 by David

Airships of Camelot is Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan meets The Once and Future King. Like Leviathan, Airships is likely to get called “Steampunk,” though that category fits loosely at best. In some ways, this retelling of the Arthur story has more … Continue reading →

Posted in Bookshelf | Tagged Airships of Camelot, King Arthur, Leviathan, Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Robison Wells, Scott Westerfeld, Steampunk, T.H. White, The Once and Future King, Young Adult | Leave a comment

The Methode of a Poet Historical

Posted on September 1, 2014 by David

“For the Methode of a Poet Historical is not such, as of an Historiographer. For an Historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions, but a Poet thrusteth into the middest, … Continue reading →

Posted in Quotation | Tagged Edmund Spenser, Historical Fiction, King Arthur, Poetry, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Faerie Queene | Leave a comment

Bookshelf: The Billy Saga

Posted on May 28, 2014 by David

Michaelbrent Collings is a writer probably best known for his horror novels, but he’s always written outside that genre, from science fiction thrillers to young adult vampire romance to karate instruction manual. With the Billy Saga, Michaelbrent gets into Middle … Continue reading →