I’m a little surprised that Ringworld hasn’t come up, yet. Maybe I’m assuming that those of you who are science fiction fans are all Niven fans already. Anyway, it’s the best damn pastiche of the Wizard of Oz you’ll ever read. No, seriously, Larry Niven himself has had this insight (WARNING: TV TROPES LINK).
And so, adieu to The High Crusade.
How to describe Poul Anderson’s The High Crusade? Well. Do you like books where alien invaders discover why it’s not a good idea to mess with a 14th Century English baron who has a complete set of longbowmen with him?
…The answer to that should be ‘yes,’ by the way. Not that I’m judging you if it’s not. Well, not too much.
And so, adieu to Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation.
