May I recommend "Space Viking" by H. Beam Piper (way out of print, but it's on Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20728)? it's a 50's-era story, so you'll see many anachronisms, but it's a good story. And the captain does remind me of Amos.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Alexis Duprey <[email protected]> wrote: > Dang, I meant "who wouldn't love Amos Trask: The Space Pirate" Never using > my tablet again. :) Anyway, I'd love to read a SF book written by Ray, but > mostly because I'd like him to do something new and exciting. New characters > in a new world with new enemies and burdens to face. That's why I'm so > excited about War of Five Crowns. Maybe one day when SF is popular again we > can see him write an awesome space epic. Time will tell.
