Genre: Historical

All fiction and excerpts in: Historical

Read an Excerpt From He Who Drowned the World

Mon Aug 21, 2023 3:00pm

Fantasy, Historical || Book Two of the The Radiant Emperor Duology: Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory that tore southern China from its Mongol masters.

Read an excerpt From A Market of Dreams and Destiny

Trip Galey

Thu Aug 17, 2023 3:00pm

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Fantasy, Historical || Below Covent Garden lies the Untermarkt, where anything and everything has a price: a lover’s first blush, a month of honesty, a wisp of fortune.

The Devil in America

Kai Ashante Wilson

Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:30am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Ann VanderMeer

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Fantasy, Historical || To celebrate Tor.com’s 15th Anniversary, we’re reposting some gems from the more than 600 stories we’ve published since 2008. Today’s story is “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson. Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them across centuries, out of slavery, and finally to the idyllic peace of the town of Rosetree. The shattering consequences of this confrontation echo backwards and forwards in time, even to the present day.

Read an Excerpt From The Judas Blossom

Stephen Aryan

Thu May 11, 2023 1:00pm

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Fantasy, Historical || Book One of The Nightingale and the Falcon: Due to the efforts of the great Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire covers a vast portion of the known world.

Read an Excerpt From Bindle Punk Bruja

Desideria Mesa

Tue Sep 27, 2022 2:00pm

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Fantasy, Historical || Luna—or depending on who’s asking, Rose—is the white-passing daughter of an immigrant mother who has seen what happens to people from her culture.

Read an Excerpt From This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke

Katherine Locke

Thu Apr 21, 2022 2:00pm

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Historical, Young Adult || In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic.

Read an Excerpt From Sarah Tolmie’s All the Horses of Iceland

Sarah Tolmie

Tue Mar 1, 2022 1:00pm

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Fantasy, Historical || Everyone knows of the horses of Iceland, wild, and small, and free, but few have heard their story.

A Better Way of Saying

Sarah Pinsker

Wed Nov 10, 2021 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Ellen Datlow

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Fantasy, Historical || The year is 1915, and a young man hired to shout the words on title cards for silent films experiences the magic of movies. This spurs him to edit some of the worst dialog, leading him in a weird direction that utterly changes his life.

Read an Excerpt From Nicole Glover’s The Undertakers

Nicole Glover

Tue Nov 9, 2021 2:00pm

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Fantasy, Historical || Murder & Magic book 2. Hetty and Benjy Rhodes are magic practitioners and detectives living in post–Civil War Philadelphia.

Read an Excerpt From The Bones of Ruin

Sarah Raughley

Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:00pm

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Fantasy, Historical || A tightrope walker who can’t die gets embroiled in a secret society’s deadly gladiatorial tournament...

Read an Excerpt From Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan

Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:00am

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Fantasy, Historical || To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything...

Read an Excerpt From The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

India Holton

Wed Jun 2, 2021 1:30pm

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Historical, Romantic || A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance.

Read the First Two Chapters From Everything That Burns

Gita Trelease

Tue Feb 2, 2021 2:00pm

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Historical, Young Adult || Book 2 in the Enchantee series. Camille Durbonne gambled everything she had to keep herself and her sister safe. But as the people of Paris starve and mobs riot, safety may no longer be possible.