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Hos-Hostigos
The Kalvan series is a series of science fiction novels started by H. Beam Piper and continued by his authority John F. Carr, about a Pennsylvania police officer who is transported to an alternate world. The series is part of Piper's Paratime series and features many of the characters from that series. The police officer, Calvin Morrison, is picked up by a "cross-time flying saucer" (really a Paratime conveyor) and dropped off in an alternate Pennsylvania where "Aryans" (speakers of Indo-European languages) migrated east across Asia and the Pacific Ocean and arrived in North America. This is different from the real world, where they moved west into Europe. Books The Kalvan series consists of eight books: Reception and analysis '' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' says of the Paratime and Kalvan series, "''Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen'' remains the most successful and enjoyable of all these tales." Joseph Major noted that upon the publication of ''Lord Kalvan of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalvan (Calvin Morrison)
The Kalvan series is a series of science fiction novels started by H. Beam Piper and continued by his authority John F. Carr, about a Pennsylvania police officer who is transported to an alternate world. The series is part of Piper's Paratime series and features many of the characters from that series. The police officer, Calvin Morrison, is picked up by a "cross-time flying saucer" (really a Paratime conveyor) and dropped off in an alternate Pennsylvania where "Aryans" (speakers of Indo-European languages) migrated east across Asia and the Pacific Ocean and arrived in North America. This is different from the real world, where they moved west into Europe. Books The Kalvan series consists of eight books: Reception and analysis '' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' says of the Paratime and Kalvan series, "''Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen'' remains the most successful and enjoyable of all these tales." Joseph Major noted that upon the publication of ''Lord Kalvan o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Kings' War
{{Infobox book , name = Great King's War , title_orig = , translator = , image = File:GreatKingsWar.jpg , caption = First edition , author = John F. Carr and Roland Green , illustrator = , cover_artist = Alan Gutierrez , country = United States , language = English , series = , genre = Science fiction , publisher = Ace Science Fiction Books (1985); Pequod Press (2006) , release_date = 1985 (first edition); 2006 (revised and expanded edition) , media_type = Print (Paperback - 1985 , Hardcover - 2000 ) , pages = , isbn = , preceded_by = Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen , followed_by = Kalvan Kingmaker ''Great Kings' War'' is an English language science fiction novel by John F. Carr and Roland J. Green, a sequel to H. Beam Piper's ''Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen''. It continues the story of Corporal Calvin Morrison after he is transported to another timeline by a Paratime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Kalvan Of Otherwhen
''Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen'' is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer H. Beam Piper; it is part of his Paratime series of stories, and was expanded by John F. Carr to form the Kalvan series (with some installments co-written by Carr and other writers). It recounts the adventures of a Pennsylvania state trooper who is accidentally transported to a more backward parallel universe. It was published posthumously, making it Piper's final science fiction novel. The book is an expanded version of the novelettes "Gunpowder God", which had been published in the November 1964 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and "Down Styphon!", which had been published in the November 1965 issue of Analog. "Gunpowder God" itself is a Paratime-series rewrite of the unpublished story " When in the Course", which takes place in the Terro-Human Future History milieu. Plot summary Humans on an advanced time-line have discovered "lateral" time dimensions that allow them to travel to "wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
