Will have to add that to the stack. Got the GoT 3 or 4 book set I need to go through, as well as quite a bit of engineering stuff at work, so it may be a while! On Dec 12, 2013 12:38 PM, "Raymond Feist/New ATT" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > >
