A Viking Who Loves Jack Daniels

[JoanDrake]

Book where time traveling movie producers go back and pick up a Viking. He loves Jack Daniels. They leave a crew, the Viking, and a case of Jack in Medieval Norway and go back to Hollywood for other stuff. On their return they find that while they had only been gone 3 days, more than a year had gone by in the past. The Viking had drank all the Jack and enslaved the crew. Don't know what happened after that as it was a magazine series and I missed the rest.

Possible date of before the 80's, but I'm really bad on dates. Said to have "Movie Rights Sold" but never heard of anything close coming out.

Anybody know what it was?

 

[chrispenycate]

I'm going to volunteer "A technicolor time machine" by Harry Harrison, even if it's so long since I read it that I can't remember any of the details.

 

[little fuzzy]

Have to agree. Sounds like Harry Harrisons book The Technicolor Time Machine.

 

[The Judge]

Ooh, I loved that book! The bit I remember best is when they are trying to get the viking to play a love scene, but he's not interested in the actress, so they plant a bottle of whisky on the other side of the cupboard bed, and he's reaching across to it with the requisite longing in his eyes, when he is hit by her sexiness. Minutes later the crew have a film "they can't show outside Sweden". ("And he's got a bottle in there with him," one of the crew says mournfully.) And the actress has a son, and she names him Snorey, after one of the Seven Dwarfs (she's none too bright), and he turns out to be a famous Viking called Snorri (?Sturleson?).

 

[TheDustyZebra]

How odd. I've never heard of this book, and I'm a Harry Harrison fan! Must find.

 

[jastius]

The Technicolor Time Machine | Harry Harrison | Macmillan

harry harrison's whole collection is available in ebook format. here is the link for the technicolor time machine from macmillian books, harry's publishers.

while i am no fan of e-readers**, it does allow you to grab an unattainable book. but i still replace my eread books with hard copy as soon as i can find one.



**(too slow, awkward to hold comfortably, needs to be charged, expensive to download .. easy to mangle.. hard on eyes to read for long.. reading position strain on neck arms and back for extended periods.. really only meant for a light reading habit or looking up short passages (recipes, quotes,poetry,).. difficult to read the whole page(needs a columnization feature.. if nintendo-ds can add it to their reading books chip why can't kindle etc., do so?)..and way too difficult to get to work properly (who really wants to make all those decisions when they want to read when with a book you just pick it up?) .. and smacking of yuppie pretentiousness to actually pull one out in public..)

sorry for the rant. they do give me a sea sick headache which i usually make better by reading. but reading those gives me more of a sea sick headache so it doesn't work.

 

[PaulMmn]

IIRC, the Harry Harrison book was originally serialized in ANALOG magazine as "The Time-Machined Saga."
--Paul E Musselman

 

[JoanDrake]

That's certainly it. Thank you all.

I am a real fan of Harrison's, but then who isn't?