Series
Pavane
Keith Roberts · 6 novelettes · 2 short stories · 1 collection · 1966–1968
Keith Roberts' Pavane (1968) is a single fix-up novel built from linked stories rather than a multi-book series: in an alternate 20th century where Elizabeth I was assassinated and Spain conquered England, the Catholic Church suppresses Protestantism and keeps technology frozen at a steam-powered, feudal level. The interconnected stories follow different Dorset families across generations as long-suppressed dissent against Church rule begins to stir.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Map
Pavane at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s9
Shape
6 novelettes · 2 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:alternate historyfaith and religionbritish islesreflectiveadultshort story cycle
Mood
Grim and calm: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 9 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Signallerdarkest
- Pavanebrightest · calmest
- The Lady Annemost intense