Space Viking

When his wife is murdered on his wedding day lucas trask launches himself on a quest for revenge.

Space viking. Mission to land a spacecraft safely on the surface of mars and return images of the surface. Two identical spacecraft each consisting of a lander and an orbiter were built. 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. The viking program consisted of a pair of american space probes sent to mars viking 1 and viking 2.

The story is of course fantastically ludicrous as smith conjures up some norse gloves from space during some innocent play acting with penny and will. Nasa s viking project found a place in history when it became the first u s. Space vikings roam the wreckage plundering and killing for gain. While rehearsing for a play will penny and dr.

He wore a short black jacket heavily gold braided and black trousers inside ankle boots. 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. Each spacecraft was composed of two main parts. For the swedish spacecraft see viking satellite.

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. But raiding is not his destiny and he gradually becomes a trader starting to build a galactic empire. The dagger on his belt was no mere dress ornament. Smith encounter a cosmic storm.

A couple of strange artifacts in the form of a pair of gauntlets appear in the aftermath followed shortly by a large hammer. Space viking is a science fiction novel by american writer h. The production values are pretty good too as the viking set wouldn t be out of place in some epic blockbuster movie of the 50s. An orbiter designed to photograph the surface of mars from orbit and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface.

The story was originally serialized in analog magazine november 1962 february 1963 then published by ace books in 1963. 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. Summary by mark nelson.

Using his personal fortune he buys a spaceship and becomes a space viking raiding worlds while hunting for his wife s killer. Harkaman was a space viking.