The Dream of the Iron Dragon
Ratings3
Average rating4
15
Ratings3
Average rating4
"A new beginning, 1300 years in the past ... In medieval Europe, three explorers from the distant future begin an ambitious project: build a craft capable of reaching the stars. While their leader oversees the construction of a secret underground base in Iceland, the other two travel thousands of miles to negotiate with the rulers of Europe and recruit the most brilliant minds of the age. When the Iceland base comes under attack, the travelers try to return to defend their home, but they are trapped in Paris just as an army of 20,000 Vikings lays siege to the city. To survive, they must defend Paris from the hordes of Norsemen and fight their way back to Iceland to save their new home--and keep the dream of the Iron Dragon alive. The dawn of the Iron Dragon is the second installment in the Iron Dragon trilogy, which began with The dream of the Iron Dragon"--Amazon
Featured Series
2 primary booksSaga of the Iron Dragon is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Robert Kroese.
Reviews with the most likes.
This book starts out as a surprisingly good space SF story including a page turning space chase scene involving trajectories and relativity (great stuff if you are into this sort of thing). I actually though this was the best part of the book - I'd give this 5 stars easily. Then the book takes a sudden turn. Due to the cover and blurb I don't think it's a spoiler to say that the spaceship suddenly finds itself on Earth in the 880s AD. As someone with an interest in SF and archaeology I actually really enjoyed this story. The pace was rather up and down (slow,slow, getting boring, OH MY GOODNESS SO EXCITING....slow, slow... etc.) but when it was good it was very good and I'd really like to see what happens next.
