The Legion of Space (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Jack Williamson
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—interplanetary romance
- Time of Work: The thirtieth century
- Setting: The solar system and several settings in interstellar space
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Heroes or heroism, Arms or weapons, Asteroids, comets, or meteors
- Locales: Space, Solar system
The Plot
The link in all the Legion of Space stories and the major reason for their enduring popularity is the unlikely space opera character Corporal Giles Habibula, who is based largely on William Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff from the Henry IV plays. Never the hero or romantic lead, Giles still manages to steal each story with his all-too-human complaining, wheedling, self-pitying, never-satisfied appetite for food and wine, and talent for picking locks, which, despite the advanced technology of the stories, is required to save the day in all of them. The other...
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