History Literature / RichardTheThirdInTheTwentyFirstCentury

* DeweyDefeasTruman: The series itself becomes AlternateHistory to the 2000s as well in ''Loyalty Binds Me''- large parts of the exposition are devoted to discussing John Ashdown-Hill's research into Richard III's genes, including mention of a female relative living in Canada in 2004, and this genetic information's importance to proving Richard ''is'' Richard. This was the same information used in the real world to identify Richard's remains in 2012- remains which, in the book, aren't Richard's at all, but a predeceased IdenticalStranger's.

* HistoryMarchesOn: The series itself becomes AlternateHistory to the 2000s as well in ''Loyalty Binds Me''- large parts of the exposition are devoted to discussing John Ashdown-Hill's research into Richard III's genes, including mention of a female relative living in Canada in 2004, and this genetic information's importance to proving Richard ''is'' Richard. This was the same information used in the real world to identify Richard's remains in 2012- remains which, in the book, aren't Richard's at all, but a predeceased IdenticalStranger's.

The first book, ''This Time'', begins with RichardOfGloucester making his final charge at Bosworth Field. He is felled by his own treasonous forces, succumbs to death...

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically "''{{Film/Thor}}'' (with whom it shares many, ''many'' tropes and a basic FishOutOfWater premise, though it predates ''Thor'' by two years) meets ''TheSunneInSplendour'' (with whom it shares its protagonist)". ''Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' [-STARRING RICHARD III!-]

* HotMom: Sarah Levine, who's also something of a HotScientist, or at least a Hot Former Science Prodigy.

* {{Jerkass}}: John Fortas. Overlaps with TheNiedermeyer.

* {{Jerkass}}: John Fortas. Overlaps with TheNiedermayer.

* JerkAss: John Fortas. Overlaps with TheNiedermayer.

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

Has no relation to ''BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury''. Or ''[[DuckDodgers Duck Dodgers in the Twenty-Fourth and a Half Century]]''. Or ''SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury''.

''' ''Richard III in the 21st Century'' contains examples of: '''

Has no relation to ''BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury''. Probably.

* HappilyMarried: Richard and Sarah. His first marriage, to Anne, was very happy, too.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: "Gray-Beard".

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " ''{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''TheSunneInSplendour'' " (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). ''Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' [-STARRING RICHARD III!-]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically ' '{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''TheSunneInSplendour'' ' (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). ''Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less Film/NorthByNorthwest [-STARRING RICHARD III!-]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " '{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''TheSunneInSplendour'' " (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). ''Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less Film/NorthByNorthwest [-STARRING RICHARD III!-]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " '{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''TheSunneInSplendour''" (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). ''Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less Film/NorthByNorthwest [-STARRING RICHARD III!-]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " '{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''TheSunneInSplendour''" (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). '' Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less Film/NorthByNorthwest [-STARRING RICHARD III!-]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " '{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''TheSunneInSplendour''" (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). '' Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less Film/NorthByNorthwest [[RecycledINSPACE [-STARRING RICHARD III!-] ]]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " '{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''TheSunneInSplendour''" (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). '' Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less Film/NorthByNorthwest [-STARRING RICHARD III!-]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " '{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''TheSunneInSplendour''" (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). '' Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less Film/NorthByNorthwest [[RecycledINSPACE -STARRING RICHARD III!-]]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " '{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''TheSunneInSplendour''" (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). '' Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less Film/NorthByNorthwest [[RecycledINSPACE [-STARRING-]]] [[RichardOfGloucester [-RICHARD III!-"]]]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " '{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour''" (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). '' Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less Film/NorthByNorthwest [[RecycledINSPACE -STARRING-]] [[RichardOfGloucester -RICHARD III!-"]]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " '{{Film/Thor}}'' meets ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour''" (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). '' Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' [[RecycledINSPACE -STARRING-]] [[RichardOfGloucester -RICHARD III!-"]]

* XMeetsY: ''This Time'' can be summarized as basically " '{{'Film/Thor}}'' meets ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour''" (though it predates ''{{Film/Thor}}'' by two years). '' Loyalty Binds Me'' is more or less ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'' [[RecycledINSPACE [-STARRING-]]] [[RichardOfGloucester [-RICHARD III!-]"]]

* XMeetsY: ''ThisTime'' can be summarized as basically " ''Film/Thor'' meets ''Literature/TheSunneInSplendour''" (though it predates ''Film/Thor'' by two years).

* WorthyOpponent: Richard regards Hosgrove this way as he gets to know him. He has no doubt that Hosgrove merely wants to pump him for information and then send him back to Bosworth to die, but he has the utmost respect for his history as a soldier and his advanced age. [[spoiler:Their relationship grows more friendly, bizarrely enough, after Hosgrove ''shoots'' Richard, and the extent to which he regrets this convinces Richard that Hosgrove isn't as utterly merciless as he thought.]]

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 becomes obsessed with figuring out how 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.

* BigApplesauce: The location of much of the latter half of the first 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.