![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of cowering before the aliens, the knights fight and win. The High Crusade does the EXACT OPPOSITE. Human science is shown to be nothing compared to what the aliens could bring, and even in victory, humanity is humbled by the experience. Then I read the book, and I fast realized why I thought it wouldn’t be any good: The typical alien invasion tale centers on a victimized humanity struggling to survive against the superior foe, culminating in a last-ditch effort to reclaim their freedom. super-advanced aliens? It sounded like nonsense on stilts since there was no way to make such a fight even remotely interesting. But the Englishmen remain undeterred, and they steel themselves for a battle unlike any they had ever faced.Īt first, I was skeptical of the premise. They loaded up the entire population of the town of Ansby and thought they would fly to France and then to the Holy Land, but the alien deceives them, and the people of Ansby are taken to a planet in the alien empire. Led by Sir Roger de Tourneville, the knights forced the alien to operate the ship for them. Instead, brave English knights stormed the ship with sword, bow, and axe, and they slew all but one of the blue-skinned fiends. They have come to conquer, and England - no, all Earth - would lay prostrate before them, their lands surrendered and their people devastated. ![]() Men watch transfixed as a blue creature steps out, bearing weapons that incinerate men with casual ease. Among medieval Englishmen, aliens land, their towering spacecraft dwarfing primitive works. ![]()
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