John Foust wrote:
At 12:05 PM 10/23/98 -0500, Mark Tapley wrote:
I guess I'd have to start out:
1) Scout for native woman.
2) Establish dynasty.
3) Found school/religion to keep dynasty on task
4) Gosub Chuck's #1) above.
Read the actual "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" by
Mark Twain - not the Classics Illustrated comic book, not the
Bing Crosby version. Said Yankee goes back to Camelot and
establishes electricity, the telephone, and various flavors
of modern warfare, and picks up the native woman and establishes
said schools as above along the way. It would make a great movie
if they stuck to the book.
Another good one along those lines is _The Cross-Time Engineer_ and
sequels, by Leo Frankowski, about a modern (1980s) Polish engineer
who accidentally gets dumped into the year 1231, ten years before
the Mongols in our (and his original) world almost totally
depopulated that part of Europe. How to get a massively
outnumbered medieval population ready in such a short time isn't his
only problem. Among other things, this good socialist has to get
quite capitalistic to get things done.
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