![]() ![]() So Sir Roger captures the spaceship fairly easily … at which point he loads up all his troops, not to mention the entire population of his town (around 2,000 people or so) with the intent of flying over to France for conquest. The aliens are quickly overwhelmed, since the aliens (called the Wesgorix) are so technologically advanced, they’re not trained in hand to hand combat. When the little blue men start shooting rayguns, the Englishmen respond with a hail of arrows and a cavalry charge. And so, Sir Roger and his various knights and men at arms go to investigate. But, the process is interrupted when weird blue-skinned aliens land their spaceship nearby. Sir Roger, a feudal baron, is mustering his troops to go help invade France (which is about as English of a pastime as watching Dr. Told from the perspective of a Brother Pavrus, a Fransiscan monk, The High Crusade starts in 14 th century England. ![]() ![]() It’s a short and punchy adventure with a heck of a premise. Published in 1960 (first serialized in Astounding magazine, and later as a stand-alone volume), The High Crusade is a pretty standard book of that era. Poul Anderson is another of those classic sci-fi writers who I’ve read before, but not recently– so here we are! The High Crusade was in the big pile o’ books my brother in law foisted on me a few months ago, and so here we are! Book Review: The High Crusade by Poul Anderson ![]()
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