Archive for the ‘Real Event Fiction’ Category
MURDER AS A FINE ART by David Morrell
MURDER AS A FINE ART by David Morrell is one of the best mystery books I’ve read this year. It is historically based, taking place in the nineteenth century. As some of you may know, Morrell is best-known for his book, First Blood, upon which the the Rambo movies are based. Murder as a Fine Art is very different from his first writings. It is literary fiction and page-turning at its best.
December 3, 2013
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Tags: 2013 - authors with books coming out in 2013, Historical, Literary, Mulholland · Posted in: Character Driven, Facing History, Literary, Mystery/Suspense, Real Event Fiction, Real People Fiction, Time Period Fiction
11/22/63: A NOVEL by Stephen King
Dedicated Stephen King fans are in for an epic treat—an odyssey, a Fool’s journey, an adventure with romance. A genre-bending historical novel with moral implications, this story combines echoes of Homer, H.G. Wells, Don Quixote, Quantum Leap (the old TV show), Jack Finney’s TIME AND AGAIN, and even a spoonful of meta-King himself, the czar of popular fiction.
November 8, 2011
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Tags: 1950s, 2012 PB Release, 2013 - authors with books coming out in 2013, 800+ Pages, Historical, JFK, Speculative (Beyond Reality), Time Travel · Posted in: Alternate History, Award Winning Author, Real Event Fiction, Real People Fiction, Speculative (Beyond Reality), Texas, Time Period Fiction
PIGEON ENGLISH by Stephen Kelman
Around ten years ago, a young Nigerian immigrant, 10-year-old Damilola Taylor, was beaten by boys barely older than him in Peckham, a district in South London. Damilola later bled to death. The incident sparked outrage in the United Kingdom and was subsequently pointed to as proof that the country’s youth had gone terribly astray.
The same incident seems to have also inspired a debut novel, Pigeon English, with 11-year-old Harri Opoku filling in for the voice of Damilola Taylor.
September 14, 2011
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Tags: 2011, Around-the-World, hmh, London · Posted in: 2011 Man Booker Long List, Class - Race - Gender, Debut Novel, Immigration / Diaspora, Life Choices, Real Event Fiction, United Kingdom, World Literature
THE ECHO CHAMBER by Luke Williams
Evie Steppman’s mammoth ears are a repository of history, memory, and time. She was born unnamed to British parents in Lagos, Nigeria, during the end of British colonial rule (1946), and, now in her fifties, she is chronicling her story and the stories of various individuals from a collection of documents, letters, diaries, pamphlets, photographs, and assorted, emotionally powerful objects, or “unica” (one-of-a-kind objects).
August 16, 2011
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Tags: Around-the-World, Historical, Memory, Nigeria · Posted in: Africa, Character Driven, Contemporary, Debut Novel, Real Event Fiction, World Literature
THE MISSING OF THE SOMME by Geoff Dyer
When I first read just the title of this book — THE MISSING OF THE SOMME — I thought perhaps it was an historical novel about World War I, or possibly a linear history of some of the men who had never come home from the fields of battle. Then, reading the Vintage description of Geoff Dyer’s slim volume, I banished those ideas in favor of curiosity about a work that “weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and film, poetry and sculptures, graveyards, and ceremonies that illuminate our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War.” Did Dyer ably marry these diverse elements and create a memorable contribution to WWI literature?
August 15, 2011
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Tags: 2014 authors, Around-the-World, Geoff Dyer, Historical, War Story · Posted in: Real Event Fiction, War, World Literature
THE ASTOUNDING, THE AMAZING, THE UNKNOWN by Paul Malmont
THE ASTOUNDING, THE AMAZING, THE UNKNOWN by Paul Malmont is a celebration of science fiction’s golden years via the pulp magazine ethos. Taking place in 1943, it recounts a story partially based in fact about how the guiding lights of science fiction’s heyday were brought together by the military and tasked with making science fiction real in order to defeat the Nazis. Virtually all the authors who were the mainstays of science fiction and fantasy from 1930’s through the 1960’s are there.
July 22, 2011
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Tags: 1940s, Historical, Speculative (Beyond Reality) · Posted in: Alternate History, Mystery/Suspense, Real Event Fiction, Speculative (Beyond Reality)
