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A Nebula Award-winning Author In the good old days they gave you a suit of armor and a mighty steed to rescue a maiden in distress. But John Tardy didn't know about this battle until he was in it. No suit of armor, no magnificent charger. He'd have been happy just to arrive on his own two feet, or any way other than as a package labeled "Spacial Delivery."Tags
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In this novella Dickson introduces us to the Dilbians, a primitive woodsman/agrarian race of kodiak bears walking around on their hind legs, and has the humans and the Hemnoids fight for the right to influence their development. Which is all the set up for a basic everyman discovers he's a hero (of course the everyman is an Olympic athlete that just wants to be known for his brain) and rescues the fair maiden. There is a little bit of world-building, but the Dilbians are really just caricatures of the noble savage, and the main human character is a two-dimensional cutout that has all of his character traits filled in by the end of the first chapter.
It's not a bad quick read, and it has the advantage of brevity over the re-titled show more rewrite that is Spacepaw. show less
It's not a bad quick read, and it has the advantage of brevity over the re-titled show more rewrite that is Spacepaw. show less
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A naturalized American who was born in Canada on November 1, 1923, Gordon Rupert Dickson is a popular science fiction writer. Dickson graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1948 and made his home in Minneapolis. Among his many novels, especially notable is Soldier, Ask Not, which won the Hugo Award in 1965. For many years, Dickson's most show more engrossing project was his Childe Cycle, a series of novels about humanity's evolutionary potential, which included a group of futuristic books that are popularly known as the Dorsai Cycle. Dickson also wrote hundreds of short stories and novelettes including Call Him Lord, for which he received a Nebula Award in 1966. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1961
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- The Right Honorable Joshua Guy, Ambassador Plenipotentiary to Dilbia, was smoking tobacco in a pipe, an old-fashioned and villainuos habit for such a conservative and respected gentleman.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)With you ,he feels safe.
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