The Story
Theodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that.But how about vampire hunter?Or African king?Or Jack the Rippers nemesis?Or World War I doughboy?Mike Resnick (the mostawarded short story writer in science fiction history, according to Locus) has been the biographer of these other Teddy Roosevelts for almost two decades. Here you will find a familiar Roosevelt, but in unfamiliar surroundings stalking a vampire through the streets of New York, or a crazed killer down the back alleys of Whitechapel, coming facetoface with the devastation of 20th Century warfare, waging an early battle for womens suffrage, applying all his skills to bring American democracy to the untamed African wilderness, or coming facetoface with one of H. G. Wells Martian invaders in the swamps of Cuba.And, as Winston Churchill said of the Arthurian legends, if these stories arent true, then they should have been.Enjoy.
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Theodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that.But how about vampire hunter?Or African king?Or Jack the Rippers nemesis?Or World War I doughboy?Mike Resnick (the mostawarded short story writer in science fiction history, according to Locus) has been the biographer of these other Teddy Roosevelts for almost two decades. Here you will find a familiar Roosevelt, but in unfamiliar surroundings stalking a vampire through the streets of New York, or a crazed killer down the back alleys of Whitechapel, coming facetoface with the devastation of 20th Century warfare, waging an early battle for womens suffrage, applying all his skills to bring American democracy to the untamed African wilderness, or coming facetoface with one of H. G. Wells Martian invaders in the swamps of Cuba.And, as Winston Churchill said of the Arthurian legends, if these stories arent true, then they should have been.Enjoy.
