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The Dragon Waiting: A Masque of History: John M. Ford: Fantasy alternate history combining vampires, the Medicis, and the convoluted English politics surrounding Edward IV and Richard III. Kelly Country: A. Bertram Chandler: Australian bushranger and rebel Ned Kelly leads a successful revolution against British colonial rule. The result is that ...
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels.
Fictional history may refer to: Alternate history, a subgenre of speculative fiction; Counterfactual history, a form of historiography; Backstory, events preceding the plot of a story Origin story, the backstory of how a character became a protagonist or antagonist; Historical fiction, a literary genre; Pseudohistory, a form of pseudoscholarship
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It collected all the "Sorrows" epigraphs published in Koontz's work to date, as well as previously-unpublished text. The 22,000-word introduction includes a fictional history of the book. [1]: ¶6 That "history" asserts that those who read the full volume purportedly die in unusual and unpleasant ways, most often from their heads exploding.
Several Middle Eastern states have joined to form a superstate known as the "Middle Eastern Coalition". Battlefield 3: Video game 2011 2014 Takes place during the "War of 2014" in the Iran-Iraq area. [23] Battlefield 4: Video game 2013 2020 Takes place during the fictional "War of 2020" between the United States, China, and Russia.
In the fictional history of Middle-earth, the original Certhas was created by the Sindar (or Grey Elves) for their language, Sindarin. Its extension and elaboration was known as the Angerthas Daeron , as it was attributed to the Sinda Daeron, despite the fact that it was most probably arranged by the Noldor in order to represent the sounds of ...
The First Sundering occurred in ancient times (around -17,600 DR) [1] before humans came into Toril, at a time when elven high mages united to create the Evermeet lands. As a consequence of their powerful magic, the supercontinent of Merrouroboros was torn apart, creating what is now known as the Trackless Sea and the continents of Faerûn, Maztica and Katashaka, among other physical changes.