Queen's Thief is a judgment call. The setting isn't antiquity, though. The setting is the Age of Gunpowder, with references to myths in ancient times and a continuance of polytheism. The location is throughout that universe's version of the eastern Mediterranean. To give a sense of what sort of thing Ms. Turner does: the fifth novel - which is set in her universe's equivalent of Mesopotamia - is plotted around the retelling of an epic that is clearly her universe's version of Gilgamesh, but she never calls it that.
I'd call her series an AU. I'm reasonably sure Ms. Turner's publishers don't know what to make of it, so they just call it a fantasy and leave it at that.
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Date: 2018-12-23 08:39 pm (UTC)Queen's Thief is a judgment call. The setting isn't antiquity, though. The setting is the Age of Gunpowder, with references to myths in ancient times and a continuance of polytheism. The location is throughout that universe's version of the eastern Mediterranean. To give a sense of what sort of thing Ms. Turner does: the fifth novel - which is set in her universe's equivalent of Mesopotamia - is plotted around the retelling of an epic that is clearly her universe's version of Gilgamesh, but she never calls it that.
I'd call her series an AU. I'm reasonably sure Ms. Turner's publishers don't know what to make of it, so they just call it a fantasy and leave it at that.
The map of her universe.