I have been rather remiss in my Warrior Wednesday Reports. Like, completely skipping them. But, to be fair, I haven’t received many WW tags! Like hardly any. But, since I just got one (which reminded me), and my own stories have some ‘warrior’ bits, I thought I would send one out.
#Tags
For my Sci-Friday Report I am working on #tags, so I’ll try that here:
#Medieval/Fantasy Medieval
A joust, a poisoned horse, a kidnapped princess:
Not exactly sure where to place this one. The culture and words he has made up leave me a bit confused.
#Sci-Fi
A new husband, a new life, a new planet… and he’s a hero. And this is a combat zone. And she doesn’t have any idea what she is doing. Sci-fi with war and aliens, what’s not to like?
Skating Along
Illoia was just relaxing when she heard a huge door slam open a shuttle flair to a stop, and the door slam shut again.
Warrior Stories
The problem with Warrior Stories is that they are almost never merely warrior stories. The warrior has friend, possibly a wife and family, a political cause… all sorts of things. And the warrior can be in a fantasy book, or a science fiction book, or even in a ‘modern’ book :(
Some of the most famous warrior stories that have ever existed are ‘coming of age’ stories. A young man gets caught up in some great cause, goes out and fights valiantly, gets the girl, and then settles down, his warrior days done.
One famous author of this sort is GA Henty. GA Henty lived from 1832-1902 and wrote 122 books, most of which are boy’s adventure books of the ‘warrior’ type. The boy is in some problematic situation, he meets some famous person, he goes along with the famous person to the wars, he learns the language, works hard, rescues a girl, does well, and marries the girl at the close of the book. There, now you know the plot of pretty much all of his books.
His books are all, now, historical fiction; altho given the time that he wrote them some of them wouldn’t have been considered ‘historical’ at the time. Right now I am reading/listening too (most of his books are free at Gutenberg and Librivox) his book entitled ‘A Coronet of Horse’, which is about the European wars of succession and the English army of that time under the Duke of Marlborough. I highly recommend it.
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Von also writes as ‘Arthur Yeomans’. Under that name he writes children’s, YA, and adult fiction from a Christian perspective. His books are published by Wise Path Books and include the children’s/YA books:
The Bobtails meet the Preacher’s Kid
and
As well as GK Chesterton’s wonderful book, “What’s Wrong with the World”, for which ‘Arthur’ wrote most of the annotations.
Arthur also has a substack, and a website.
Thanks again, God Bless, Soli Deo gloria,
Von
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