Science fantasy itself is filled with adventure romance in a magical universe peopled with numinous characters and fantastic creatures. Bradley's precedents in this and contemporaries in this are Andre Norton, Roger Zelazny, Ursula Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, as well as Sally Gerheart's ecofeminisrn in Wanderground. Its archetypes can be found in the pastoral romance of renewal and rediscovery, familiar in Shakespearean drama both early, in As You Like It (c.1599-1600) and later in The Winter's Tale (c.1610-1611) and The Tempest (c.1611) and in our folk and fairy tale tradition.