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The Ship That Sailed the Time Stream

by G. C. Edmondson (1965)

About this book

The special research vessel ALICE was the oddest ship that ever flew the ensign of the United States Navy; small, wooden-hulled and sail-powered, she would have been less out of place in the Navy of a hundred years ago - if it weren't for the electrician's nightmare of a christmas tree hanging from her main boom. The purpose of the "christmas tree" was to detect enemy submarines, it wasn't very good at that, but when lightning struck it proved itself highly efficient at...something else. For when the smoke cleared, there off the port bow was a long-ship. Full of Vikings. Throwing things. The ALICE had become...The Ship That Sailed The Time Stream,

Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters

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