Book description
L M Greenspan, the head of ailing Climactic Studios, gave producer,
Barney Hendrickson, five days to get a major movie in the can - and
Climactic out of it. Impossible? Not with Professor Hewett's miraculous
presto chango time machine, the answer to Hollywood producer's prayer.
Nipping back to AD 1,000 with a whole film crew and two glam stars,
Barney sets out to prove that the Vikings discovered America five
hundred years before Columbus - and to film the event in glorious
Technicolour. But it's not as easy as it sounds, as they realise when
history lets them down and their Viking Columbus fails to show up in the
New World
Harry Harrison (1925 - 2012)
Harry Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Connecticut, in 1925.
He is the author of a number of much-loved series including the
Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero sequences and the
Deathworld Trilogy. He is known as a passionate advocate of Esperanto,
the most popular of the constructed international languages, which
appears in many of his novels. He has been publishing novels for over
half a century and is perhaps best known for his seminal novel of
overpopulation, Make Room! Make Room!, which was adapted into the cult
film Soylent Green. He died in 2012.
