If you can wait ten years and want to stretch this from "Bronze Age historical fiction" to "fantasy set in a Bronze Age transition period", I'm working on a series inspired by ancient...
If you can wait ten years and want to stretch this from "Bronze Age historical fiction" to "fantasy set in a Bronze Age transition period", I'm working on a series inspired by ancient Mediterranean history.
I randomly came across another option for you, found in a biography of Sir Terry Pratchett. The Maze Maker by Michael Ayrton. It's a novel about the life of Daedalus
I randomly came across another option for you, found in a biography of Sir Terry Pratchett.
The Maze Maker by Michael Ayrton. It's a novel about the life of Daedalus
Not sure if these are exactly what "Bronze Age" would be, but Wilbur Smith wrote a series of novels about ancient Egypt that start with a book called River God. It has been years since I read it,...
Not sure if these are exactly what "Bronze Age" would be, but Wilbur Smith wrote a series of novels about ancient Egypt that start with a book called River God. It has been years since I read it, but I remember it being pretty interesting, especially pulling in some of the technological changes that were happening at that time. I only read one of the sequels. It had a more mystical/fantasy bent and was just so-so.
The other thing that comes to mind is Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel. The first one or two are good, then they skew into romance.
River God was great pulpy fun. I was thinking of q more Mesopotamian setting. Would love an Indus Valley type setting and have been toying with a fantasy equivalent myself.
River God was great pulpy fun. I was thinking of q more Mesopotamian setting. Would love an Indus Valley type setting and have been toying with a fantasy equivalent myself.
If you can wait ten years and want to stretch this from "Bronze Age historical fiction" to "fantasy set in a Bronze Age transition period", I'm working on a series inspired by ancient Mediterranean history.
I've been desultorily worldbuilding an Indus Valley Civilisation inspired setting.
Will wait ten years 😁
The King Must Die and Bull From the Sea by Renault probably qualify. Disclaimer, all of my suggestions are books I read decades ago.
The Red Tent.
Thanks
I randomly came across another option for you, found in a biography of Sir Terry Pratchett.
The Maze Maker by Michael Ayrton. It's a novel about the life of Daedalus
Not sure if these are exactly what "Bronze Age" would be, but Wilbur Smith wrote a series of novels about ancient Egypt that start with a book called River God. It has been years since I read it, but I remember it being pretty interesting, especially pulling in some of the technological changes that were happening at that time. I only read one of the sequels. It had a more mystical/fantasy bent and was just so-so.
The other thing that comes to mind is Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel. The first one or two are good, then they skew into romance.
River God was great pulpy fun. I was thinking of q more Mesopotamian setting. Would love an Indus Valley type setting and have been toying with a fantasy equivalent myself.
You might take a look at Anne Rice's Servant of the Bones. I probably read it 30 years ago, so salt appropriately.