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The Dream of the Iron Dragon An Alternate History Viking Epic Saga of the Iron Dragon Book 1 eBook Robert Kroese

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The Dream of the Iron Dragon An Alternate History Viking Epic Saga of the Iron Dragon Book 1 eBook Robert Kroese

Terrible uninteresting characters who are completely interchangeable. A storyline that relies on the characters continuously making bad decisions instead of actually being interesting. Anachronisms galore. The storyline that doesn't really ever make sense. Time travel that doesn't ever make sense. Characters that seem to think they'll destroy the future if they change the past yet they continually change the past. I had to force my way through this book.


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The Dream of the Iron Dragon An Alternate History Viking Epic Saga of the Iron Dragon Book 1 eBook Robert Kroese Reviews

Very well done. Not yer typical sci-fi setting, and that's a good thing. Who knew Vikings were more than longboats and horned helmets? Looking forward to the next release.

Aside think I've read only a couple other space ships in pre-modern time stories - Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' being my favorite - and this is completely different, which is really nice.
A fabulous story line, great character development, extensive scientific and historical research, and the usual fantastic prose and sense of humor that one would expect from Robert Kroese. Cannot wait for the next book!
I hate writing reviews. The fact that I actually did is a bigger testament to the book then the 5 stars I gave it. Well worth your money, and more importantly, worth your time. Kroese sold the improbable premise beautifully. I'm prepared to believe that this may have happened. Vikings. Space opera. Who knew?
it got a little long-winded at times discussing exactly how they accomplished certain things, but the storyline was certainly unique. I credit the author for putting a LOT of effort into making the science PLAUSIBLE.. almost as though he was not telling a story sometimes, he was doing a 'how to' manual. I can't help but think that at some point in time they are going to come up with the most 'rational' answer to their dilemma, which is to send the object through to the future citizens of earth as a time capsule.. but .. that would be MY story, not the authors'.. Good story. Buy the book.
I had been wondering which book would be my first 5-star read of 2019... well, that question has now been answered!

Do you like epic science-fiction? time travel stories? vikings? this book has it all!

The story starts some 200 years in the future, at a time when the humans stands on the brink of being destroyed by an alien race with which they are at war. We follow the crew (or part thereof) of an exploratory spaceship sent to look for habitable planets in which the remnants of mankind could hide, at least for a while, and recuperate. After a series of happenings, they end up accidentally back in our solar system, but in the 9th century AD.

The action was enough to keep me turning the pages, but the characters are what made me like this book so much. Not only the spacemen, but also the vikings. I really felt like I was in medieval Europe, among the vikings. The author truly did his research, and incorporates a lot of information about people and events of that time, but without bogging the story down with it.

The next volume is already in the reading queue!
The plot outline sounded interesting, and the start was OK. But all downhill from there. The story reads like a 1930s movie matinee serial, as our hero(s) go from one catastrophe to another. Everything they do is undone, as they are forced to run from place to place, escaping the reach of a seemingly clairvoyant protagonist. Maybe that is supposed to be exciting, but I only found it irritating and progressively more implausible. The Viking descriptions were not particularly lifelike, and everywhere--from spaceships to rebuilding technology--the author skips over or blurs the hard parts. On top of all this, I never developed a personal interest in any of the main 23rd century characters. It is more than a lack of character development. These characters, who are knocked back in time for oh, roughly 1500 years, seem like blobs on a piece of paper. I do not know any of them well enough to either like or dislike any of them. I have not read any of the author's other works and this effort would not encourage me. I think the potential for a great story is here, but more effort needed.
The characters are not developed much or well. The plot is disappointing, the protagonists' agenda is nonsensical from the moment they recognize they've gone back in time, and the titular idea of building a spacecraft from scratch locally doesn't even arise until the last 2% of the book. The no-paradox rule is assumed without evidence (and occasionally questioned without follow-through) and generally treated very shallowly.

That would make two stars, maybe a generous three.

But this is a book where the author wants to show their work about technical details...and keeps getting them wrong. Anything to do with the lander is dubious at best. Orbital flight and reentry are misrepresented, the main power plant that is almost safely fictional science but inconsistently references both fission and fusion, and the propulsion solution of hydrogen/oxygen chemical rockets topped up by elemental transmutation of atmospheric gas on a ship with an advanced post-nuclear reactor is a complete absurdity. When railgun shots become a vital plot point, aside from dubious physics the numbers fail to even be self-consistent by a factor of three. Much later homegrown firearms show off no grasp of firearm design by specifying unsound features and leaving critical ones (like the firing mechanism) blank.

Simply glossing over such details can work fine in a story, though maybe not this story. Dwelling on them as this book does while getting them wrong over and over is egregious.
Terrible uninteresting characters who are completely interchangeable. A storyline that relies on the characters continuously making bad decisions instead of actually being interesting. Anachronisms galore. The storyline that doesn't really ever make sense. Time travel that doesn't ever make sense. Characters that seem to think they'll destroy the future if they change the past yet they continually change the past. I had to force my way through this book.