Space Viking

Harkaman was a space viking.

Space viking. Each spacecraft was composed of two main parts. The dagger on his belt was no mere dress ornament. Mission to land a spacecraft safely on the surface of mars and return images of the surface.

Smith realizes the potential power of the objects and hides them leaving replicas synthesized by the robot in their place. Using his personal fortune he buys a spaceship and becomes a space viking raiding worlds while hunting for his wife s killer. Space vikings are pirates that prey on mainly defenseless worlds of the old federation that have become decivilized to one degree or another as a result of the collapse of the federation.

Space viking is a science fiction novel by american writer h. Lord lucas trask of traskon was no admirer of the space vikings but when murder takes his wife on his wedding day trask trades everything he has for his own space viking ship and sets out on a galaxy wide quest for revenge. Beam piper set in his terro human future history.

Lucas trask was critical of space vikings until the murder of his fiancee whereupon he became one in the hopes of tracking down her killer. An orbiter designed to photograph the surface of mars from orbit and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface. It tells the story of one man s search for his wife s murderer and its unexpected consequences.

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. But raiding is not his destiny and he gradually becomes a trader starting to build a galactic empire. The story was originally serialized in analog magazine november 1962 february 1963 then published by ace books in 1963.

Space vikings roam the wreckage plundering and killing for gain. That would have set him apart even if he hadn t topped the tallest of them by a head. Nasa s viking project found a place in history when it became the first u s.