NorsePlay.

  After buying this book a year & a half ago , NorsePlay finally gets into the text inside this crazy Thor versus this Jormungantic starship cover, and we were not disappointed. Project Millennium  (1987 CE) by Curtis H. Hoffmann is a strong-handed conceit where a real war is set up to celebrate the 1,000-year anniversary of Muspell's Planet who has hired the megacorporation E.C. (which actually just stands for Entertainment Company [obvi-simple, right?]) to stage the battle in 100 years. The android who handles such under-the-table questionable high-cost private arrangements sets up two A.I. computers to head up each side, make armies, and square off. Now here's where the NorsePlay comes in: One computer decides to take on the identity of Snorri Sturluson, and because of this, begins vat "growing a force of mutant fighters" based on the Æsir ! The other computer decides to avatar as King Richard III, but follows Snorri's lead in creating the Norse adversarial...

  NorsePlay is solely presenting this for the fun move-out-of-the-way-space-alien cover art. After finding a synopsis of the novella's pro-conversion miracle usage and apparently ridiculous Martian insect breeding adversaries there's no way I'd bother with reading it (nor did the real author want to sign it as Ivar Jorgensen's actually a pseudonym), yet the visual tropes here (and that Viking's laughing expression as he strong palms that bubble helmet) show the persistence of Norse Romanticism pushing itself all the way into sci-fi . #     #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the  Map of Midgard  project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay.   If you have e m...

  The NorsePlay 1987 CE sci-fi novel  Project: Millennium by Curtis H. Hoffmann apparently uses Norse Mythology's stories as a gloried nostalgia for a staged war in a future where the world of " Muspell's Planet " is bored with peace! I would still bet that Thor's going to clobber that Jörmungandr-gantic spaceship even without his fighting trousers. Have any of you read this, and if so, does it live up to its cover art? Leave your review in the comments below! #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the  Map of Midgard  project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay.   If you have e mployment/ opportunities in  investigative mythology,...

This SF cover art from 1976 by Karel Thole evokes a Wagner ian mien, mixed with a Kirby-esque space-scaped cosmic winged-helmet Marvel Thor -like figure. And the invading Viking explorative ethos is fitting for this anthology's description of a " far-flung, preferably barbaric , galactic empire ". It seems though that women have discarded the hangerock dress with turtle box pin brooches for a much more abbreviated attire . Skol to the future! #    #    # Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in  the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires'  Norse Gods and Giants  at age seven. Since t hen he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the  Map of Midgard  project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay.   If you have e mployment/ opportunities in  investigative mythology, field research, or product...

Not to let the  hokey Twain-ist title fool you, Edmond Hamilton's  A Yank at Valhalla  delivers  a Norse-inspired genre mash-up in fine pulp style. [Original pulp from January 1941.] Part lost civilization fantasy, part science fiction,  Hamilton plays with the idea that behind mythology lies a greater truth. Physicist Keith Masters, during an exploratory survey flight, gets blown into a hidden area of the arctic  where he discovers the secret lands of  the Norse Gods . [An Ace double version from 1973.] Stylewise, the many typos (a pulp given) are  unexpectedly balanced out by some lovely .50-cent word selections, and it's neat shifting gears as a  reader between scientific terms and medieval descriptors. This integrated juxtaposition aside, a lot of  the presentation is stirring with cries of "Our swords for Asgard!", impressive feasting hall settings, and  saga worthy melees & martial battles. [UK re-titled version from 1950....