Ruled Britannia

Harry Turtledove has made alternative history/historical fiction his own. His books range widely in the history of mankind and when he indulges in a particular period of interest, we all benefit. In this book, he imagines a Britain almost a decade after the Spanish Armada when Spain has conquered th......more

The central conceit is brilliant and I can't fault the scholarship or the choice of protagonists but the prose is turgid and overwritten. The Guns of the South proves that Turtledove can write a fast paced novel while retaining the fruits of his research so I guess what he needs to find is a friendl......more

Una estupenda novela sobre el teatro y su función en la sociedad inglesa isabelina, partiendo de la posibilidad de que la Felicísima Armada hubiese logrado desembarcar y conquistar Inglaterra. El encuentro entre Shakespeare y Lope de Vega permite imaginar la relación entre dos de los mejores dramatu......more