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Historical Reenactment in Fiction
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April 1999
Compiled by Maria McNeal
of Kent Denver School Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
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Catherine Aird--THE BODY POLITIC
A mystery involving English Civil War (I think) reenactment.
Garrison Allen--ROYAL CAT
A mystery set at the Authentic Elizabethan Spring Faire in Arizona.
Piers Anthony--STEPPE
A science fiction book about a Turkish warrior chieftain (time period unspecified) who is abducted by "the Galactics"
to participate in a game which reenacts his own era.
Peter S. Beagle--THE FOLK OF THE AIR
A fantasy involving a Society for Creative Anachronism(SCA)-type group.
Claudia Bishop--A TASTE FOR MURDER
A mystery involving a historical pageant in upstate N.Y. (I think) and a reenactment of 17th-century witch trials which goes too far.
Margaret Whitman Blair--BROTHERS AT WAR
Children's time-travel fantasy about Civil War reenactors who are transported back in time.
Nancy Bond--ANOTHER SHORE
A YA novel about a 17 year-old who works in a reconstructed colonial settlement in Nova Scotia who finds herself back in 1744.
Nancy Bond --BEST OF ENEMIES
A children's mystery about the annual Lexington/Concord reenactment.
Rita Mae Brown--CAT ON THE SCENT
Mystery, Civil War reenactment.
John Brunner--MUDDLE EARTH
Science fiction, a man in the 24th century seeks help from a young Sherlock Holmes in a Victorian London reenactment.
L. Sprague de Camp--THE TOWER OF ZANID
Science fiction, involves a village where all the inhabitants are convinced they are living in ancient Greece.
Jill Churchill--WAR AND PEAS
Mystery, Civil War reenactment.
Chris Claremont and Beth Fleisher--DRAGON MOON
Takes place during a Celtic/Irish reenactment in Pennsylvania.
Margaret Peterson Haddix--RUNNING OUT OF TIME
A children's/YA book about a girl who thinks she'sliving in 1840, then finds out she lives in a historically reconstructed village in 1996.
Mercedes Lackey and Ellen Guon--KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS
A fantasy featuring elves and a guy who works at a California Renaissance Festival.
Janet Laurence--A DEEPE COFFYNE
A mystery involving a medieval feast society of historical gastronomes.
George Ella Lyon--HERE AND THEN
A YA time-travel fantasy in which the characters participate in a Civil War re-enactment then go back in time to the real war.
Sharyn McCrumb--HIGHLAND LADDIE GONE
A mystery set at a highland games (not exactly historical reenactment per se, but close).
Sharyn McCrumb --IF I'D KILLED HIM WHEN I MET HIM
Mystery with a subplot involving a female who portrays a confederate (male) soldier in Civil War reenactments.
Elizabeth Peters--THE RICHARD III MURDERS (or something similar)
A mystery set at a weekend gathering of medievalists who have strong views about the guilt or innocence of the aforementioned Richard.
Mary Monica Pulver--KNIGHT FALL (pb title)/originally MURDER AT THE WAR (hc title)
A mystery set at an SCA event.
Gillian Roberts--TIME AND TROUBLE
A mystery involving an SCA-type group (or is it the actual SCA?) of medieval/renaissance reenactors.
Willard Scott (and Bill Crider)--MURDER IN THE MIST
Mystery, Civil War reenactment.
Patricia Tichenor Westfall--MOTHER OF THE BRIDE
Mystery, Civil War reenactment.
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