Sin lugar a dudas, este ha sido uno de los libros más extraños que he leído en mi vida. De hecho, podría ser EL libro más raro que haya caído en mis manos jamás. ¿Una historia alternativa donde los caballeros logran sofocar la Revolución inglesa con la ayuda de Oberón y Titania? ¿Y en esta versión del multiverso, Shakespeare es un gran historiador y todo el mundo habla en pentámetros yámbicos?Aunque por momentos fue una delicia, también resultó ser insoportable con frecuencia. Y no me refiero al...

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This is a strange mix of alt-history mid-XVII century England, fantasy and fan-fic based on William Shakespeare plays. I read it as a part of monthly reading for September 2021 at Hugo & Nebula Awards: Best Novels group. The book was nominated for 1975 Nebula Awards for the Best Novel, together with surprising number of other nominees 18 in total (from usual 6!) and lost to The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.the novel starts with a battle scene from the England civil war, were our protagonist, ...

Poul Anderson is known for his "hard" science fiction, so this book was certainly a surprise! While there are some science fiction elements in the book, notably parallel timelines, it takes place during the 1600's in England. In this time line, Shakespeare is an historian, trains were already invented, but the Puritans were still firmly in charge of the England. While the protagonist is male, there are three strong female characters as well as romance. If you are a bit of an Anglophile, as I am,...

A Midsummer Tempest de Poul Anderson es una novela que mezcla fantasía y ciencia ficción con una estructura que recuerda a una obra de teatro, incluyendo escenas introductorias antes de cada capítulo. Es una combinación fascinante: el concepto del multiverso de Glory Road de Heinlein se une a las ideas de Anderson sobre la historia alternativa y el futuro, todo ello moldeado como un sentido homenaje a Shakespeare. El libro incluye cameos divertidos de personajes de sus otras novelas, como Three ...

A clock chimes in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which is impossible, since clocks that chimed were a medieval invention, but Poul Anderson took it and ran with it. This book takes place during the English Civil War and the Industrial Revolution. Both.Prince Rupert is captured. One soldier in his force, Will Fairweather, keeps after him, and his captor's niece, Jennifer, helps him escape -- to meet Oberon and Titania, who offer him and Jennifer magical rings powered by their love. Alas, Jennifer i...

The idea of A Midsummer Tempest is intriguing: a world in which Shakespeare was not a storyteller, the Bard, but wrote about reality: the Historian. Oberon and Tatiana really existed, Prospero really broke a staff and hid a book in the deeps... The story is set in the time of Cromwell, though, and Oberon and Tatiana are minor though essential characters. The main characters are Prince Rupert and a young Puritan woman, Jennifer, who come together when Rupert is captured, along with Will, who serv...

Estamos ante una fantástica aventura shakesperiana ambientada en un universo donde lo que escribió el Bardo es, literalmente, real. A principios del siglo XVII, el príncipe Rupert lucha junto al rey Carlos contra los puritanos; cuando es capturado, recibe una ayuda inesperada de la sobrina de su captor y, de forma aún más sorprendente, de los monarcas de las hadas, Oberón y Titania, quienes lo guían hasta la isla de Próspero. El lenguaje de Poul Anderson en A Midsummer Tempest es maravilloso y, ...

PrólogoUna novela de bolsillo. Principios de los 70.PRIMER CABALLERO¡Dígame, buen señor, qué es este libro!Su autor me suena, ¿acaso es fantasíao ciencia ficción lo que aquí se narra?SEGUNDO CABALLERO¡No, primo! Es una brillante aventura shakesperiana,¡un mundo donde cada obra suya es realidad!Y todos parlotean del mismo modo que yoahora mismo, imitando al Bardo...PRIMER CABALLERO¡Por Dios! ¿Pero no se vuelve un poco pesado?Me temo que la broma pueda alargarse demasiado.SEGUNDO CABALLERO¡Por mi ...

Imagine an alternate universe in which every word William Shakespeare wrote was based on the literal, historical truth. Since that, in turn, would imply the existence of clocks capable of chiming the hour in Julius Caesar's Rome and cannons in Hamlet's tenth-century Denmark, it'd be no wonder if this world's seventeenth century were more technologically advanced than ours! And, shades of A Midsummer Night's Dream, of course there'd be magic too!Poul Anderson picks up this premise and runs with i...