|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sundance  writes: |
With too much history to read, I don't read historical fiction. I know there are some good authors doing it, but I just don't have the time right now and the one that I tried to read (can't even remember the author now) turned out to be ahistorical swill. Go figure I'd pick the bad one to start with! ;oP |
Back to the Homepage
718 hits since 10 Dec 2008
©1994-2010 Bill Armintrout
Comments or corrections?
If you were a member of this website, you could participate in website polls. Would you like a free membership?
| VOTING RESULTS | |||
| Answer | Votes | % | Chart |
Alexander Dumas | 36 | 6% |  |
|---|---|---|---|
Alexander Kent (WWI/WWII naval fiction) | 15 | 2% | |
Alfred Duggan (Roman fiction) | 4 | 1% | |
Allan Furst (1930s/WWII spy stories) | 2 | 0% | |
Ambrose Bierce | 9 | 1% | |
Arch Whitehouse | 1 | 0% | |
Arturo Perez Reverte (Alatriste series) | 8 | 1% | |
Barbara Hambly (Ben January 1820s New Orleans mysteries) | 2 | 0% | |
Barry Sadler (Casca series) | 8 | 1% | |
Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe series) | 71 | 11% | |
Boris Akunin (Erast Fandorin novels) | 3 | 0% | |
C.S. Forester (Horatio Hornblower series) | 65 | 11% | |
Caleb Carr | 3 | 0% | |
Charles D. Taylor (The Sunset Patriots) | 1 | 0% | |
Colleen McCullough (First Man in Rome series) | 17 | 3% | |
Conn Iggulden | 5 | 1% | |
David Drake (Roman novels) | 13 | 2% | |
Donald Jack (Bartholomew Wolfe Bandy novels) | 2 | 0% | |
Dorothy Dunnett | 0 | 0% | |
William Boyd | 1 | 0% | |
G.A. Henty | 4 | 1% | |
Dudley Pope (Ramage series) | 6 | 1% | |
Edith Pargeter (The Brothers of Gwynedd series) | 3 | 0% | |
Edward Rutherford (Sarum, The Forest and London) | 5 | 1% | |
Nicholas Montserrat | 2 | 0% | |
Frans G Bengtsson (The Longships) | 3 | 0% | |
George Garrett (Elizabethan novels) | 0 | 0% | |
George McDonald Fraser (Flashy) | 44 | 7% | |
George Shipway (Imperial Governor) | 2 | 0% | |
Henrik Sienkiewicz | 3 | 0% | |
Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) | 4 | 1% | |
Howard Fast ( | 5 | 1% | |
Ian Morson (13th century Oxford mysteries) | 1 | 0% | |
Jack Whythe | 3 | 0% | |
Jeff Shaara | 12 | 2% | |
John Biggins (Otto Prohaska series) | 3 | 0% | |
John James (Votan) | 0 | 0% | |
John Maddox Roberts (SPQR series) | 7 | 1% | |
Julien Rathbone (A Very English Agent) | 1 | 0% | |
Kenneth Roberts | 4 | 1% | |
Lindsey Davis (Falco series) | 9 | 1% | |
Mary Renault | 6 | 1% | |
Mary Stewart (Merlin trilogy) | 10 | 2% | |
Maurice Walsh (Blackcock's Feather) | 1 | 0% | |
Max Allan Collins (1930s/40s private-eye novels) | 2 | 0% | |
Michael Shaara | 19 | 3% | |
Newt Gingrich | 5 | 1% | |
Nigel Tranter | 2 | 0% | |
P.C. Wren (French Foreign Legion novels) | 6 | 1% | |
Patricia Finney (AKA PF Chisholm, A Shadow of Gulls) | 0 | 0% | |
Patrick O'Brian (Aubrey/Maturin novels) | 36 | 6% | |
Rafael Sabatini | 4 | 1% | |
Robert Graves (Count Belisarius) | 11 | 2% | |
Robert Louis Stevenson | 15 | 2% | |
Rosemary Sutcliff | 12 | 2% | |
Rudyard Kipling | 36 | 6% | |
Samuel Shellabarger (Prince of Foxes) | 2 | 0% | |
Simon Scarrow (Eagle series) | 12 | 2% | |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Brigadier Gerard stories) | 23 | 4% | |
Stephen Pressfield | 11 | 2% | |
Sven Hassel | 7 | 1% | |
Thomas Costain | 0 | 0% | |
Wallace Breem | 2 | 0% | |
Wilbur Smith (Egyptian series) | 3 | 0% | |
Willi Heinrich (Cross of Iron) | 7 | 1% | |
| POLL IS CLOSED |
| POLL DESCRIPTION | |
Sometimes historical fiction is not far from the actual events (Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian); other times it can be pretty fantastic (Marie Laveau, the New Orleans voodoo queen); sometimes it's more about the humor (Flashman by George MacDonald). (Authors were nominated in this discussion.) |
