- Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey; First Edition edition (Oct 31 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345368509
- ISBN-13: 978-0345368508
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #600,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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ONWARD AND OUTWARD
Conrad Stargard has come a long way since he was first transported from the twentieth century to the thirteenth. Thanks to his knack for "inventing" such astonishing things as steam engines, machine guns, radios, and riverboats, he's turned Medieval Poland into a military powerhouse--capable of repelling invasions by marauding Mongols and Teutonic troops alike.
Now, with enemies vanquished, industry booming, and peace in the land, it is time to continue Poland's remarkable technological progress. And doing so requires harvesting raw materials only Lord Conrad knows where to "discover." Thus is founded the Explorer's Corps, whose intrepid members set out to map new frontiers from the Arctic Circle to the Amazon. But can even Conrad's knowledge of the far future prepare him and his subjects for what lies just beyond the borders of their kingdom?
Conrad Stargard has come a long way since he was first transported from the twentieth century to the thirteenth. Thanks to his knack for "inventing" such astonishing things as steam engines, machine guns, radios, and riverboats, he's turned Medieval Poland into a military powerhouse--capable of repelling invasions by marauding Mongols and Teutonic troops alike.
Now, with enemies vanquished, industry booming, and peace in the land, it is time to continue Poland's remarkable technological progress. And doing so requires harvesting raw materials only Lord Conrad knows where to "discover." Thus is founded the Explorer's Corps, whose intrepid members set out to map new frontiers from the Arctic Circle to the Amazon. But can even Conrad's knowledge of the far future prepare him and his subjects for what lies just beyond the borders of their kingdom?
From the Back Cover
"It's good to have the adventures of Conrad Stargard continued after a long hiatus. They gave us a fascinating view of medieval Poland in a vigorous, enjoyable story, together with insights of technology and even, subtly, economics. By now we're into a complete world-of-if, equally fun to explore."
--POUL ANDERSON
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Conrad goes to South America,
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This review is from: Conrad's Quest for Rubber (Mass Market Paperback)
Another great book in the Adventures of Conrad Stargard. Don't miss the new prequel! Maybe when the last Star Wars comes out they'll make Conrad into a movie franchise? A must read for engineers and computer nerds while waiting for the next Harry Potter.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Where was I?,
By Ron Tew (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Conrad's Quest for Rubber (Mass Market Paperback)
I don't know where I was when this book came out but I jus found it and bought it immediately.I read the other reviews out of curiousity. Most of them point out several severe flaws that I acknowledge. In spite of this, I rate the book fairly highly for the simple reason that it was very enjoyable. It's stimulated my imagination almost as much as the first four. I could read flawed books like this one all the time!
1.0 out of 5 stars
Really just terribly and unfortunately bad.,
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This review is from: Conrad's Quest for Rubber (Mass Market Paperback)
How the mighty have fallen. With this book Frankowski's series has reached a new low. Lord Conrad's Lady was only average and should have been the end of this saga.This book really isn't worth bothering with. Much of the book is told from the point of view of another character as some of the other reviewers here have indicated. This in and of itself isn't a bad thing as the High-Tech Knight did much the same to great success. Unfortunately, the rehashing of the past novels from this new character's point of view doesn't work nearly as well. In the High-Tech Knight there was one book's events to rehash, in this one there are five! Frankowski has always displayed a bit of a libidinous side with Conrad having many different conquests in each of the books. I really didn't find that particularly wrong or out of hand. In this book though he goes totally overboard with genetically engineered beings from the future and a bunch of other wacky sexual situations that add nothing to the story. Whatever titilating aspects people derive from all this, are lost on me at this point. The story overall is something of a disappointment with an awful ending that amounts to pushing a reset button to take away all the nasty aspects of the past hundred pages. Some people may find this way of magically putting us into a happy ending satisfying, but I really felt like I had wasted my time as most of the events of the book ended up having no significance. The whole point of the series has been lost, that being Conrad's addition of new technology to history and his use of his knowledge of future history to make significant changes. This book just throws most of that out the window in favor of technological contrivances from the future that make everything else insignificant. Very disappointing overall.
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