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ianl1963's review against another edition
4.0
A strange book in as much as written in the American vernacular, but very enjoyable all the same.
angrywombat's review against another edition
3.0
These were funny little stories.
The basic premise is fun - some sciency-types in our world figure out a theorem that lets a person jump into alternate-worlds. Shenanigans ensue
In the first story, our PoV character - prof. Harold Shea, is a tad dissatisfied with his life, and risks trying an untested theorem - and finds himself in the mytic world of miðgard, complete with Aesir, giants, and the coming Ragnarok!
In the second, Prof. Shea is joined by his colleague Prof. Chalmers (a more ... sedate... professor) and find themselves in the chivalric world of the Fae!
These are basically "fish out of water" stories, with "modern" folks traipsing around in these worlds with radically different ways of thinking and acting - and what really throws them is that the basics of the world are different: phyisics doesn't work as expected, and magic does!
Silly and fun. The language is a little strange, and the characters can be somewhat offensive but the self-mocking tone saves it :)
Need to find the other books in the series!
The basic premise is fun - some sciency-types in our world figure out a theorem that lets a person jump into alternate-worlds. Shenanigans ensue
In the first story, our PoV character - prof. Harold Shea, is a tad dissatisfied with his life, and risks trying an untested theorem - and finds himself in the mytic world of miðgard, complete with Aesir, giants, and the coming Ragnarok!
In the second, Prof. Shea is joined by his colleague Prof. Chalmers (a more ... sedate... professor) and find themselves in the chivalric world of the Fae!
These are basically "fish out of water" stories, with "modern" folks traipsing around in these worlds with radically different ways of thinking and acting - and what really throws them is that the basics of the world are different: phyisics doesn't work as expected, and magic does!
Silly and fun. The language is a little strange, and the characters can be somewhat offensive but the self-mocking tone saves it :)
Need to find the other books in the series!
vaderbird's review against another edition
3.0
5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
cmbohn's review
1.0
This was one that belonged to my dad and I really wanted to like it, but I couldn't get to chapter 3. I couldn't understand the language or the plot.
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