The Dream of the Iron Dragon

By Robert Kroese,

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It is the year 2207. After a decades-long war with an alien race known as the Cho-ta’an, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable and the human race has been driven to the brink of extinction. Humanity survives in a handful of colonies scattered across the galaxy, connected by hyperspace gates. Things…

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The premise of the story is this: the crew of a spaceship find themselves thrown back in time to the Viking Age, where they need to figure out how to build a new ship with their technological knowledge and return home. From there the crew face a constant struggle against the elements, the technological constraints of the time, Vikings, and the strange force of history itself.

It’s gripping, it’s funny at times, and always fascinating.

By the time I found Kroese’s Iron Dragon series, he had already published all five installments, which was great because as soon as I finished…

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