Science Fiction and Fantasy set in Ireland: a checklist
Nicholas Whyte
post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
omissions and b) very very brief reviews of individual items. The list
below is of titles only; for details of many of the books and some of
the stories see http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/irsf.htm .
I would particularly appreciate
1) guidance as to which of the books by Morgan Llywelyn is really
sfnal
2) guidance about any of the "Castaways in Time" books by Robert Adams
other than the ones mentioned below which are set in Ireland
3) whether the promised R.A. Lafftery novels _Sardinian Summer_ and
_First and Last Island_ were ever published (or indeed written).
Thanks to all who have contributed on previous occasions.
Nicholas
NB my real email address is explorers (at) whyte (dot) com -
nichol...@hotmail.com is a spam trap.
Categories below:
* SF and Fantasy novels set almost entirely in Ireland
* SF and Fantasy novels set in a disguised Ireland
* SF and Fantasy novels "featuring" Ireland in the background
* SF and Fantasy short fiction set in Ireland
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SF and Fantasy novels set almost entirely in Ireland
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Robert Adams' Castaways in Time series: The Seven Magical Jewels of
Ireland (1985), Of Kings and Quests (1986), Of Chiefs and Champions
(1987)
AE (George Russell), The Avatars: A Futurist Fantasy (1932)
F.M. Allen (Edward Downey), The Voyage of the Ark, as Related by Dan
Banim (1888) and The Round Tower of Babel (1891)
Poul Anderson and Mildred Downey Broxon, A Demon of Scattery (1979)
Charles Barnitz, The Deepest Sea
Mildred Downey Broxon, Too Long A Sacrifice (1981)
Lisa Carey, In the Country of the Young (2000)
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl (2001); Artemis Fowl: the Arctic Incident
(to be published 2002)
Flynn Connolly, The Rising of the Moon (1993)
Lord Dunsany, Curse of the Wise Woman (1933) and Up in the Hills
(1935)
Diane Duane, A Wizard Abroad (1993)
Kenneth C. Flint: Sidhe Series: Riders of the Sidhe (1984), Champions
of the Sidhe (1985), Master of the Sidhe (1985); Finn MacCumhal
Series: Challenge of the Clans (1986), Storm Shield (1986), Dark Druid
(1987); stand alone novels A Storm Upon Ulster (The Hound of Culain)
(1981), Isle of Destiny (1988), Cromm (1989), Otherworld (1991),
Legends Reborn (1992), The Darkening Flood (1994); as Casey Flynn, the
Gods of Ireland Series: Most Ancient Song (1991), The Enchanted Isles
(1991)
John Fogarty, The Haunt (1990)
Gregory Frost, Tain (1986) and Remscela (1988) published in one volume
as Crimson Spear (1998)
C.B. Gilford, The Crooked Shamrock (1969)
Andrew M. Greeley, The Magic Cup (1979)
Terence M. Green, Children of the Rainbow (1992)
Tom Greer, A Modern Daedalus (1885)
Frank Herbert, The White Plague (1982)
William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (1908)
Fred Hoyle, Ossian's Ride (1959)
Mollie Hunter, The Smartest Man in Ireland (1996)
John James, Not For All The Gold In Ireland (1968)
Patricia Kenneally-Morrison, the Keltiad series: The Copper Crown
(1984), The Throne of Scone (1986), The Silver Branch (1988), The
Hawk's Gray Feather (1990), The Oak Above the Kings (1994), The Hedge
of Mist (1996), Blackmantle (1997), The Deer's Cry (1998)
Katherine Kurtz, Saint Patrick's Gargoyle (2001)
Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris, Dagger Magic, a Novel of
the Adept (1995)
R.A. Lafferty, The Coscuin Chronicles: The Flame is Green (1971); Half
A Sky (1984); rumoured also to include Sardinian Summer and First and
Last Island
Edward Lester, The Siege of Bodike: A Prophecy of Ireland's Future
(1886)
Morgan Llywelyn, Red Branch (1989)
Morgan Llywelyn, Finn Mac Cool (1994)
Morgan Llywelyn, Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish (1984)
Morgan Llywelyn, The Elementals (1993)
Morgan Llywelyn, Lion of Ireland: The Legend of Brian Boru (1980)
R.A. MacAvoy, The Book of Kells (1985) and Grey Horse (1987)
Ian McDonald, King of Morning, Queen of Day (1991) and Sacrifice of
Fools (1997)
John Francis Maguire, The Next Generation (1871)
Juliet Marillier, The Sevenwaters Trilogy: Daughter of the Forest
(2000), Son of the Shadows (2001), Child of the Prophecy (2001).
Orla Melling (Geraldine V. Whelan), The Druid's Tune (1983), The
Singing Stone (1986), Falling Out of Time (1989); also The Chronicles
of Faerie: The Hunter's Moon (1993), The Summer King (1999), The
Light-Bearer's Daughter (2001), (fourth volume expected 2002)
Brian Moore, Catholics (1972)
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne The Bray House (1990)
Flann O'Brien (Brian O'Nolan), The Third Policeman (1967), The Dalkey
Archive (1964) and At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
Phil O'Brien, Memories of the Irish Israeli War (1995)
Pat O'Shea The Hounds of the Morrigan (1985)
Eimar O'Duffy's Aloysius O'Kennedy sequence, King Goshawk and the
Birds (1926), The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street (1928)
and Asses in Clover (1933)
Janeen O'Kerry (Janeen DeBoard), Celtic Journeys series of time-travel
romances: Lady of Fire (1996), Queen of the Sun (1998), Mistress of
the Waters (1999), Sister of the Moon (2001), Spirit of the Mist (to
be published 2003)
Joseph O'Neill, Wind from the North (1934)
Diana Paxson and Adrienne Martine-Barnes, Fionn mac Cumhall trilogy:
Master of Earth and Water (1993), The Shield Between the Worlds
(1994), Sword of Fire and Shadow (1995)
Tom Richards, The Lost Scrolls of Newgrange (1990)
Marylyle Rogers, Long Ago & Far Away (1997)
Noel Scanlon, Apparitions (1984)
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Godmother's Apprentice (1995)
Jack Scoltock, Quest Of The Royal Twins (1988); Seek The Enchanted
Antlers (1993); Justine's Secret Challenge (1993)
Josepha Sherman, The Shattered Oath (1995) and Forging the Runes
(1996)
Susan Sizemore, In My Dreams (1994)
James Stephens, The Crock of Gold (1912), The Demigods (1914) and
Deirdre (1923)
Francis Stuart, Faillandia (1985) and Pigeon Irish (1932)
Sheila Sullivan, Summer Rising / The Calling of Bara (1975)
Rick Sutcliffe, The Peace (2000) and The Friends ( 2001)
Mary Tannen, The Wizard Children of Finn
Kate Thompson's Switchers trilogy, Switchers (1998), Midnight's Choice
(1999) and Wild Blood
Mervyn Wall, The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) and The Return of Fursey
(1948), published as The Complete Fursey (1985)
James White, The Silent Stars Go By (1991), The First Protector, The
Secret Visitors (1957), The Dream Millennium (1974) and Underkill
(1979)
Patrick Wyatt, Irish Rose (1975)
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SF and Fantasy novels set in a disguised Ireland
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William C. Barnwell's Blessing Trilogy: The Blessing Papers (1980),
Imram (1981), and The Sigma Curve (1981)
Paul Hazel's Finnbranch series: Year Wood (1980), Winter King (1985),
Undersea (1987), and The Wealwife's Tale (1993)
Ian McDonald, The Broken Land / Hearts, Hands and Voices (1992)
Edith Pattou, Hero's Song (1991) and Fire Arrow (1998)
Emil Petaja's Green Planet series, Doom of the Green Planet (1967) and
Lord of the Green Planet (1968)
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SF and Fantasy novels "featuring" Ireland in the background
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Poul and Karen Anderson's tetralogy The King of Ys
B.B. (Denys Watkins Pritchford), The Little Grey Men Go Down The
Bright Stream
John Barnes, Mother of Storms
John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up
Steven Brust and Emma Bull, Freedom and Necessity
Diane Duane, Spock's World (1988)
Andrew M. Greeley, The Final Planet (1987)
Joe Haldeman, Worlds
Harry Harrison, The Turing Option
Harry Harrison, The Stars and Stripes Forever
Robert Holdstock, Earthwind
Ian MacDonald, Chaga
Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer
John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat
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SF and Fantasy short fiction set in Ireland
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Iain M. Banks, "The State of the Art" (briefly)
Ray Bradbury, "The Haunting of the New" and "The Banshee"
Mildred Downey Broxon, "The Antrim Hills"
L. Sprague DeCamp & Fletcher Pratt, "The Green Magician"
Charles de Lint, "The Fair in Emain Macha"
Michael F Flynn, "Slan Libh"
Randall Garrett, "The Final Fighting of Fion Mac Cumhaill"
Harry Harrison, "The Greening of the Green"
Robert Holdstock, "Earth and Stone"
H.P. Lovecraft, "The Moon-Bog"
Tess Mallory, "The Fairy Bride"
Ian MacDonald, "Empire Dreams, or: Ground Control to Major Tom" and
"After Kerry"
Robert Shelton Mackenzie [1809-1881] , Bits of Blarney (Collection)
David Murphy, "Broken Heroes", "Lost Notes", "Overload", "Zoom-time",
"Something Small", "The Last Playground", and "The Cult of the Child"
Robert Neilson, "Hands of Mercy"
Sean Mac Roibin/John Robbins, "Something Occurred: Bennie on the
Loose"
William Whyte, "Kennedy Saves the World (Again)"
Brendan Heading
>With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
>post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
>omissions and b) very very brief reviews of individual items. The list
>below is of titles only; for details of many of the books and some of
>the stories see http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/irsf.htm .
>
>I would particularly appreciate
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>
> With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
> post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
> omissions and b) very very brief reviews of individual items. The list
> below is of titles only; for details of many of the books and some of
> the stories see http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/irsf.htm .
> SF and Fantasy novels set in a disguised Ireland
> ------------------------------------------------
Jo Walton's _The Prize in the Game_ (unless the title changes
between now and when its published).
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David E. Siegel
> With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
> post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
> omissions and b) very very brief reviews of individual items. The list
> below is of titles only; for details of many of the books and some of
> the stories see http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/irsf.htm .
>
> I would particularly appreciate
>
> 1) guidance as to which of the books by Morgan Llywelyn is really
> sfnal
> 2) guidance about any of the "Castaways in Time" books by Robert Adams
> other than the ones mentioned below which are set in Ireland
> 3) whether the promised R.A. Lafftery novels _Sardinian Summer_ and
> _First and Last Island_ were ever published (or indeed written).
>
> Thanks to all who have contributed on previous occasions.
>
> Nicholas
>
of barley Cross, in ireland (I forget which county) after a holocaust
which has readered almost all men infertile. Interesting.
-DES
Nicholas Whyte
> nichol...@hotmail.com (Nicholas Whyte) wrote in message news:<7b33cc41.02031...@posting.google.com>...
> > With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
> > post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
> > omissions
> Edward P. Hughes _Masters of the Fist_ alll set in the invented villge
> of barley Cross, in ireland (I forget which county) after a holocaust
> which has readered almost all men infertile. Interesting.
Excellent. Thanks, I was completely unaware of this one.
Nicholas
Nicholas Whyte
> Nicholas Whyte wrote:
> >
> > With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
> > post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
> > omissions
> > SF and Fantasy novels set in a disguised Ireland
> > ------------------------------------------------
>
> Jo Walton's _The Prize in the Game_ (unless the title changes
> between now and when its published).
Thanks, have added it to the list.
Nicholas
David Flood
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> A certain Nicholas Whyte, of soc.culture.irish "fame", writes :
> >With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
> >post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
> >omissions and b) very very brief reviews of individual items. The list
> >below is of titles only; for details of many of the books and some of
> >the stories see http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/irsf.htm .
> >
> >I would particularly appreciate
>
> Hey, you missed the Andytown News!
And the Oirish Sunday Times and Daily Mail titles! :)
D.
Nancy Lebovitz
Nicholas Whyte <nichol...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
>post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
>omissions and b) very very brief reviews of individual items. The list
>below is of titles only; for details of many of the books and some of
>the stories see http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/irsf.htm .
>
of the Irish are actually green. I can't remember how much of
the story takes place in Ireland.
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>> > With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
>> > post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
>> > omissions
IIRC, Frank Herbert's "White Plague" starts with an IRA bomb in N.
Ireland. I think it then goes global.
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Nicholas Whyte
> In article <7b33cc41.02031...@posting.google.com>,
> Nicholas Whyte <nichol...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
> >post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
> >omissions and b) very very brief reviews of individual items. The list
> >below is of titles only; for details of many of the books and some of
> >the stories see http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/irsf.htm .
> >
> There's also _The Green Gene_ by Peter Dickinson, in which some
> of the Irish are actually green. I can't remember how much of
> the story takes place in Ireland.
Thanks. I'm filing it in the "Ireland in the background" category,
with this description from the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:
"an amusing satire on many issues including racial prejudice, set in
an alternate-world UK, where all Celts possess a gene that gives them
green skin. It was runner-up for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award."
Nicholas
Nicholas Whyte
wrote:
>Nicholas Whyte <nichol...@hotmail.com> writes
>>> > With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
>>> > post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
>>> > omissions
>
>IIRC, Frank Herbert's "White Plague" starts with an IRA bomb in N.
>Ireland. I think it then goes global.
Already on my list. The bomb rather bizarrely is a car-bomb in Grafton
Street, Dublin. Grafton Street has been pedestrianised for years, I
think perhaps even before the book was written. Why the IRA should
choose to bomb Dublin is not satisfactorily explained.
Nicholas
Luke Webber
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> Already on my list. The bomb rather bizarrely is a car-bomb in Grafton
> Street, Dublin. Grafton Street has been pedestrianised for years, I
> think perhaps even before the book was written. Why the IRA should
> choose to bomb Dublin is not satisfactorily explained.
"To be sure", perhaps? <g>
Luke
Nancy Lebovitz
Nicholas Whyte <nichol...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>na...@unix1.netaxs.com (Nancy Lebovitz) wrote in message news:<a772a3$i...@netaxs.com>...
>> In article <7b33cc41.02031...@posting.google.com>,
>> Nicholas Whyte <nichol...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >With St Patrick's Day coming up this weekend, I thought it was time to
>> >post the latest version of this list - and I would very much like a)
>> >omissions and b) very very brief reviews of individual items. The list
>> >below is of titles only; for details of many of the books and some of
>> >the stories see http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/irsf.htm .
>> >
>> There's also _The Green Gene_ by Peter Dickinson, in which some
>> of the Irish are actually green. I can't remember how much of
>> the story takes place in Ireland.
>
>Thanks. I'm filing it in the "Ireland in the background" category,
>with this description from the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction:
>
>"an amusing satire on many issues including racial prejudice, set in
>an alternate-world UK, where all Celts possess a gene that gives them
>green skin. It was runner-up for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award."
IIRC, it really is just some of the Irish who are green, not all
of them.
Boliath
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You did know that this is cross posted to soc.culture.irish Luke?
For the original poster - have you been to Albedo?
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~albedo1/ireland.html
They have links to a lot of other groups in Ireland and I'm pretty sure it
could be a one stop shop for your research, their members or members of the
other groups should know about every book that is based/mentions Ireland, if
not they'll disappoint me!
Leah
Dan Clore
[snip]
A few you might want to add:
> ----------------------------------------------------
> SF and Fantasy novels set almost entirely in Ireland
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James Joyce, _Ulysses_. The incredible Circe chapter
features Dedalus and Bloom wandering around Dublin's red
light district tripping on absinthe. Their hallucinations
include a great deal of fantasy imagery. (Borderline but
worth including, I think.)
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> SF and Fantasy short fiction set in Ireland
> -------------------------------------------
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, "The Familiar", "The Fortunes of Sir
Robert Ardagh", "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in
Aungier Street", "Ghost Stories of the Tiled House", "The
White Cat of Drumgunniol", "Sir Dominick's Bargain", "Ultor
De Lacy", "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod", "The Child that
Went with the Fairies", "Stories of Lough Guir", "The Ghost
and the Bone-Setter", "A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone
Family", "The Murdered Cousin"
Charles Maturin, "Leixlip Castle"
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Nicholas Whyte
> For the original poster - have you been to Albedo?
> http://homepage.tinet.ie/~albedo1/ireland.html
> They have links to a lot of other groups in Ireland and I'm pretty sure it
> could be a one stop shop for your research, their members or members of the
> other groups should know about every book that is based/mentions Ireland, if
> not they'll disappoint me!
I am in, if not constant, at least well-intentioned intermittent
contact with the Albedo folks, some of whom have already given me the
benefit of their knowledge (as will be apparent if you look at the
short stories section of the page) and others have promised for some
convenient future moment...
Nicholas
Check-list of SF and fantasy set in Ireland:
http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/irsf.htm
Nicholas Whyte
> Nicholas Whyte wrote:
> Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, "The Familiar", "The Fortunes of Sir
> Robert Ardagh", "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in
> Aungier Street", "Ghost Stories of the Tiled House", "The
> White Cat of Drumgunniol", "Sir Dominick's Bargain", "Ultor
> De Lacy", "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod", "The Child that
> Went with the Fairies", "Stories of Lough Guir", "The Ghost
> and the Bone-Setter", "A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone
> Family", "The Murdered Cousin"
I think I'd prefer to list these under a collected stories of LeFanu
volume; just bought one and am working my way through it.
> Charles Maturin, "Leixlip Castle"
There's a bizarre family coincidence there....
Nicholas