ed.rybicki
11/19/2013
Oh, I remember this so well...van Rijn, the hard-drinking and womanising merchant; all the schemes and plotting and exotic locales a 14-yr-old could wish for - and excellent if slightly florid writing. One of my first introductions to big-person SF, back in the late 1960s - and still fondly recalled. Very few did it better than Poul Anderson!
Though I imagine Nick van Rijn may not go down too well in this modern and PC age....
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