{{Illusion by Paula Volsky}} is pretty much a French Revolution in Fantasyland
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The Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison
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You might like some of Brandon Sanderson’s books.
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It’s a novella, but “Servant Mage” by Kate Elliott dives into colonialism and class exploitation, while telling what would otherwise be a typical “rebellion in a fantasy kingdom” story.
Her other novella, “Keeper’s Six” is a story about dimension-hopping adventurers, and has class consciousness and labor organization in the background.
She was sort of pressured into writing a YA trilogy (and deliberately avoids the common YA focus on simmering romance) that I love. The trilogy is called “Spiritwalker” the first book is “Cold Magic”. It’s an alternate universe where the Ice Age never ended, Rome lost the Punic wars, the Malian Empire decamped to Britain, and troodons achieved their full evolutionary potential. Fantasy-Napoleon has just been imprisoned (will he escape?), revolution is in the air, and the protagonists fall in with the class-conscious Radicals faction. YA is not normally for me, but this series is great.
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{{Illusion by Paula Volsky}} is pretty much a French Revolution in Fantasyland
The Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison
You might like some of Brandon Sanderson’s books.
It’s a novella, but “Servant Mage” by Kate Elliott dives into colonialism and class exploitation, while telling what would otherwise be a typical “rebellion in a fantasy kingdom” story.
Her other novella, “Keeper’s Six” is a story about dimension-hopping adventurers, and has class consciousness and labor organization in the background.
She was sort of pressured into writing a YA trilogy (and deliberately avoids the common YA focus on simmering romance) that I love. The trilogy is called “Spiritwalker” the first book is “Cold Magic”. It’s an alternate universe where the Ice Age never ended, Rome lost the Punic wars, the Malian Empire decamped to Britain, and troodons achieved their full evolutionary potential. Fantasy-Napoleon has just been imprisoned (will he escape?), revolution is in the air, and the protagonists fall in with the class-conscious Radicals faction. YA is not normally for me, but this series is great.