Oooh, thanks for the names! I went hunting for Jack Williamson and found his very good short story Salvage in Space on Amazon. On Open library I found his other books and had a great time reading the League of Space, which is literally "the Three Musketeers fight aliens to save a girl". It also occurred to me that these stories were videogames before videogames, because that hero dies multiple times and respawns. (He just falls unconscious to escape every bad situation, lol!) I want to look up those other authors, too.
I had the pleasure to meet and talk with Jack Williamson in 1988. Nice guy. One of the titans of science fiction. Fred Pohl was with him and more talkative.
Oooh, thanks for the names! I went hunting for Jack Williamson and found his very good short story Salvage in Space on Amazon. On Open library I found his other books and had a great time reading the League of Space, which is literally "the Three Musketeers fight aliens to save a girl". It also occurred to me that these stories were videogames before videogames, because that hero dies multiple times and respawns. (He just falls unconscious to escape every bad situation, lol!) I want to look up those other authors, too.
I had the pleasure to meet and talk with Jack Williamson in 1988. Nice guy. One of the titans of science fiction. Fred Pohl was with him and more talkative.