Tim Powers has terrific ideas, but sinks himself by being unable to write convincing period settings or dialogue for toffee.
The Wake of the Perdido Star, by Gene Hackman. Yeah, that Gene Hackman…
Here’s a treasure trove of past-copyright “Pirate Tales” eBook files.
But does anyone write zombie pirate fiction?
Acually, On Stranger Tides features zombie pirates! They finally “based” one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies on the book, but the very first one reminded me ofthis cover…
As long as we’re back on the subject, let me mention Gideon Defoe’s Pirates series:
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists
The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon
The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics
As you might guess from the titles, they’re not conventional pirate stories.
The first book was the source for the recent Aardman Animations movie.
He-Pirate to She-Pirate: You’re a Pirate Captain? But where are your buccaneers?
She-Pirate to He-Pirate: On the sides of my buccing head.
Plundered from somebody’s pirate comic strip, appropriately.
Have you tried the Bodice-Rippers section of the local library? :dubious:
Well, with NaNoWriMo done, I am casting about for something to do next …
Well, there’s the Bloody Jack series, by L.A. Meyer, the first book being Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy. I’ve only read the first, and it was a fast read, but good. Basically, it’s a chronicle (written in a sort of 18th-century style) of the life of a girl who lived as a street orphan. When her gang fell apart and she was basically staring at starving or being murdered, she disguised herself as a boy and took a job aboard a Royal Navy vessel. High seas adventure ensues. There are 10 books, I believe.