History Literature / RichardTheThirdInTheTwentyFirstCentury

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The general reaction most people have toward Richard's. It's described as sounding vaguely Appalachian, mixed with a vague Scottish lilt. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that this is a decent approximation of an early modern English accent.
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Fiona Gray

* CharacterTics: Richard pinches the bridge of his nose when frustrated. When Sarah calls him out on it, he mentions that he used to fiddle with a dagger instead.

* BigApplesauce: The location of much of the latter half of the book, with some excellent accuracy regarding the NewYorkCitySubway.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The general reaction most people have toward Richard's. It's described as sounding vaguely Appalachian, mixed with a vague Scottish lilt. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that this is a decent approximation of an early modern English accent.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Used in quite a bit of Richard's initial inner monologue, in ways ranging from his classification of Katarina Parvic as a "heretic" for wearing trousers and a black man as a Saracen, to his internal agony over whether or not he can consider marrying an unconverted Jew, to even mild things like initially considering his own initially collarbone-length hair short already and his later short-back-and-sides haircut to blend in "hacked off". He proves willing to learn about and accept the viewpoints of his new time, though.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. In ''This Time'', Elaine Parvic names her robot after herself simply to confuse people. In ''Loyalty Binds Me'', Richard is discomfited to discover his solicitor is named Henry Stafford, the same as his traitorous onetime friend the Duke of Buckingham.

The second book, ''Loyalty Binds Me'', picks up a year after the conclusion of ''This Time'' and finds Richard contending with the head of MI5, who for one reason or another is dead-set on proving his identity and charging him with high treason.

''Richard III in the 21st Century'' is a duology (so far) of historical science fiction novels by Joan Szetchman, about... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guess]].

''Richard III in the 21st Century'' is a duology (so far) of historical science fiction novels by Joan Schetzman, about... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guess]].

* ShownTheirWork: Schetzman clearly did a great deal of research.

* CharacterTics: Richard pinches the bridge of his nose. When Sarah calls him out on it, he mentions that he used to fiddle with a dagger instead.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Used in quite a bit of Richard's initial inner monologue, in ways ranging from his classification of Katarina Parvic as a "heretic" for wearing trousers and a black man as a Saracen, to his internal agony over whether or not he can consider marrying an unconverted Jew, to even mild things like initially considering his own initially collarbone-length hair short and his later short-back-and-sides haircut to blend in "hacked off". He proves willing to learn about and accept the viewpoints of his new time, though.

And wakes up in Portland, Oregon, in the year 2004, surrounded by oddly dressed strangers. It turns out Richard was successfully retrieved from the past by a research team who substituted a similar-looking already-dead man in the right armor in his place to avoid changing history, and grizzled project leader Evan Hosgrove is eager to get to speak to his favorite historical monarch. When an increasingly complicated series of events traps Richard in this unfamiliar time, he is forced to adapt to this new world. He soon discovers that while there is no way to rescue his beloved wife Anne from the past as well without changing history, he ''can'' bring his late son Edward to safety and works to do so. Along the way, he befriends the researchers who brought him there, learns to outgrow some of his more backward medieval beliefs, and finds himself falling for a beautiful single mom, Sarah Levine.

* MatzohFever: Richard is seriously thrown once he discovers Sarah is Jewish, thanks to ValuesDissonance between 1485 and 2004. While he's not violently antisemitic, he was raised with the usual medieval Christian attitudes about Jews, and it takes quite a lot of effort for him to accept that these views were wrong. His love for Sarah and her little daughters eventually trumps them, and by ''Loyalty Binds Me'' he's not bothered by it at all.

Has no relation to ''BuckRogersInThe24thCentury''. Probably.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. In ''This Time'', Elaine Parvic names her robot after herself simply to confuse people. In ''LoyaltyBindsMe'', Richard is discomfited to discover his solicitor is named Henry Stafford, the same as his traitorous onetime friend the Duke of Buckingham.