On Dec 12, 2013, at 10:08 AM, Cliff Nadler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. I'll second that one. It's hilarious, yet it does as wonderful a job of evoking that old time adventure as, say, Indiana Jones or Star Wars. There are descriptions of these Vikings bombing cities into submission that are cringe worthy, making the bombing of Coventry, Dresden, and Tokyo in WWII look tame. Piper was always great fun. His Fuzzy stuff is great. Another you might look up would be A. Bertram Chandler's Commodore Grimes stuff; it stands well along side Poul Anderson's Flannery stories. In fact, Poul let Bertie borrow Flannery for one of his books. Best, R.E.F.
