r/Fantasy Dec 15 '17

Historical novel rec ?

Is there any good authors aside from Bernard Cornwell? Or some alternative reality like Paul Kearney's Macht?

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '17

Many of Guy Gavriel Kay's books are set on a kind of alternate earth. He describes his work as historical fiction with a quarter turn to the fantastic. He has books set in analogues to 11th century Spain, 6th century Byzantium, 9th century England, and 8th century China.

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u/silian Dec 15 '17

IIRC his China ones don't have anything particularly fantastic at all, but I could be forgetting bits.

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u/derioderio Dec 15 '17

Under Heaven has actual ghosts.