Grrr, Ihit the wrong button…
GREAT Grand daughter impregnated by his grand son while being imprisoned on Ellis Island
Grrr, Ihit the wrong button…
GREAT Grand daughter impregnated by his grand son while being imprisoned on Ellis Island
His Excellency Horace Hussein Burry, The Mote in God’s Eye and Gripping Hand by Pournelle and Niven
Mine:
Barbarian princeling to merchant prince and almost founder of an interstellar empire. From Canberra to battling the Emergents and beyond.
Mike’s is Tachyon from the Wild Cards series. I won’t post to keep this thread from getting multithreaded again. Ankh’s stands.
Hi! I’m not Darth Vader. Really. I mean, I have mystical powers, use a blade made out of energy, wear scary armor, command a really big spaceship that got blown up, and killed the also-mystical mentor of the really-mystical child while he watched, but I’m not Darth Vader. Really!
Do we have to pick just one of those? There’s so many it’s hard to chose…
Close. The Mars series was by Kim Stanley Robinson, not David Brin. Nobody read it? Well, ! I ain’t tellin’.
Ankh_Too’s clue is Pham Nuwen from Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky.
Here’s another one:
As captain of NASA’s deep space exploration vessel Ringmaster, I got more than I bargained on when I was sent to investigate an enormous artifact discovered in orbit around Saturn. The “artifact” turned out to be a massive, intelligent entity and a self-contained world inhabited by a race of musical centaurs, who ended up worshipping me.
Oh, yeah, I (The not-Darth-Vader guy) have a Rome fetish.
Cirrocco (“Rocky”) Jones, from Varley’s very weird series Titan/Wizard/Demon
I was a poor orphan boy being raised by a relative before I embarked on a quest to save the world. I met a bunch of archtypical characters (a sneaky thief, a big viking type, etc) before I eventually saved the day.
Then I had do it all over again. Exactly the same way. :rolleyes:
Fenris
Are you Garion from David Eddings’ The Belgariad/The Malloreon?
Earth got taken over by these aliens, and I got kidnapped and sent to teraform this new planet, only we fought back and were smart and actually survived, and I fell in love with one of the bad guys, but we couldn’t have any babies because he was gray.
Fenris
(Bel)Garion in the Belgariad/Mallorian
On an expedition to Mars, I managed to use an old science classrooms blackboard to learn to read the extinct martians language.
Sounds like “Omnilingual” by H. Beam Piper (a story, BTW, that is based on an extremely ridiculous assumption).
I discovered I could live my life over. And over. And over – each time going back in time a little less far than the time before.