The High Crusade | Threadbare Reviews

[@The_Bird_Bird_Harder]

You're quite good at this, and I'm quite glad I found this review.

[@micketm3]

Ok.. its definitely Nier music in background :)

[@OnASeasideMission]

There was a time when the 'A' shelves of a science fiction bookshop were lined with Anderson. Not so much now. Poul was a great science fiction writer, and one that I managed to meet and get to know. He could use language to set the scene on an alien planet or take you to another time in history. He could also tell a joke. Science fiction can be a dead-pan business. Poul could be dead funny. 'Virgin Planet' and 'The Makeshift Rocket' had me hurting myself laughing, so did 'The High Crusade'. Like 'Galaxy Quest', everyone involved is being completely serious in a situation too ludicrous for words. It's a classic. When I heard that there was a movie, I rushed to see it. What a let down. The film completely misunderstood why the original was funny and went for a remake of 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. And failed there, too. I remember writing to Poul and commiserating on the production, but I never had a response on that one. Glad to see that he still has a following.

[@Greener221]

Paul Anderson sounds like a big influence on the Ciaphas Cain books. Are you going to be posting your next LP on Somethingawful this time?

[@evilabelincoln3787]

Ciaphas Cain took from the Flashman series of books. Gaunt is to Sharpe as Cain is to Flashman.