Man wakes up and finds himself in medieval Europe; uses his knowledge to get ahead
I'm looking for a book about a man who wakes up in medieval times and uses his advanced knowledge to get ahead. He becomes a knight and winds up having a fiefdom of his own to develop. He then builds structures for his people, like apartments, windmills etc., and improves on farming and sanitation. He is preparing for a war which he knows will happen in a few years (from history).
There's also a sequel I'd like to find. I read this 15 years ago (or more), I think.
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I'm looking for a book about a man who wakes up in medieval times and uses his advanced knowledge to get ahead. He becomes a knight and winds up having a fiefdom of his own to develop. He then builds structures for his people, like apartments, windmills etc., and improves on farming and sanitation. He is preparing for a war which he knows will happen in a few years (from history).
There's also a sequel I'd like to find. I read this 15 years ago (or more), I think.
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Hi and welcome to the site! Did you read this in English? This has a good amount of detail but you can also go through this list and see if you can think of any more to add. scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/…
– MissMonicaE
yesterday
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Neither of these is the story you're looking for, but a couple of famous stories along those general lines are Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall. Compare with Poul Anderson's "The Man Who Came Early", in which the guy from the future is a total failure in the past.
– user14111
yesterday
@user14111 I first read "The Man Who Came Early" when I was quite young. (In fact, I didn't run across a copy of Lest Darkness Fall until many years later.) I always felt Anderson stacked the deck against his time-traveler by killing the man off before the guy could really hope to adapt his thinking to the primitive conditions around him and decide what was possible. (Much more primitive than the conditions in Ostrogoth-dominated Rome in de Camp's novel.) Give that traveler a little more time, and he might have duplicated Padway's idea of making moonshine with a still to raise capital . . .
– Lorendiac
yesterday
@Lorendiac --- You don't need moonshine to get ahead in these circumstances. What you need is a BOOM stick.
– Ian Thompson
yesterday
If JRE's answer is correct, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons.
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I'm looking for a book about a man who wakes up in medieval times and uses his advanced knowledge to get ahead. He becomes a knight and winds up having a fiefdom of his own to develop. He then builds structures for his people, like apartments, windmills etc., and improves on farming and sanitation. He is preparing for a war which he knows will happen in a few years (from history).
There's also a sequel I'd like to find. I read this 15 years ago (or more), I think.
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I'm looking for a book about a man who wakes up in medieval times and uses his advanced knowledge to get ahead. He becomes a knight and winds up having a fiefdom of his own to develop. He then builds structures for his people, like apartments, windmills etc., and improves on farming and sanitation. He is preparing for a war which he knows will happen in a few years (from history).
There's also a sequel I'd like to find. I read this 15 years ago (or more), I think.
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Hi and welcome to the site! Did you read this in English? This has a good amount of detail but you can also go through this list and see if you can think of any more to add. scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/…
– MissMonicaE
yesterday
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Neither of these is the story you're looking for, but a couple of famous stories along those general lines are Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall. Compare with Poul Anderson's "The Man Who Came Early", in which the guy from the future is a total failure in the past.
– user14111
yesterday
@user14111 I first read "The Man Who Came Early" when I was quite young. (In fact, I didn't run across a copy of Lest Darkness Fall until many years later.) I always felt Anderson stacked the deck against his time-traveler by killing the man off before the guy could really hope to adapt his thinking to the primitive conditions around him and decide what was possible. (Much more primitive than the conditions in Ostrogoth-dominated Rome in de Camp's novel.) Give that traveler a little more time, and he might have duplicated Padway's idea of making moonshine with a still to raise capital . . .
– Lorendiac
yesterday
@Lorendiac --- You don't need moonshine to get ahead in these circumstances. What you need is a BOOM stick.
– Ian Thompson
yesterday
If JRE's answer is correct, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons.
– FuzzyBoots
yesterday
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Hi and welcome to the site! Did you read this in English? This has a good amount of detail but you can also go through this list and see if you can think of any more to add. scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/…
– MissMonicaE
yesterday
3
Neither of these is the story you're looking for, but a couple of famous stories along those general lines are Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall. Compare with Poul Anderson's "The Man Who Came Early", in which the guy from the future is a total failure in the past.
– user14111
yesterday
@user14111 I first read "The Man Who Came Early" when I was quite young. (In fact, I didn't run across a copy of Lest Darkness Fall until many years later.) I always felt Anderson stacked the deck against his time-traveler by killing the man off before the guy could really hope to adapt his thinking to the primitive conditions around him and decide what was possible. (Much more primitive than the conditions in Ostrogoth-dominated Rome in de Camp's novel.) Give that traveler a little more time, and he might have duplicated Padway's idea of making moonshine with a still to raise capital . . .
– Lorendiac
yesterday
@Lorendiac --- You don't need moonshine to get ahead in these circumstances. What you need is a BOOM stick.
– Ian Thompson
yesterday
If JRE's answer is correct, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons.
– FuzzyBoots
yesterday
Hi and welcome to the site! Did you read this in English? This has a good amount of detail but you can also go through this list and see if you can think of any more to add. scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/…
– MissMonicaE
yesterday
Hi and welcome to the site! Did you read this in English? This has a good amount of detail but you can also go through this list and see if you can think of any more to add. scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/…
– MissMonicaE
yesterday
3
3
Neither of these is the story you're looking for, but a couple of famous stories along those general lines are Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall. Compare with Poul Anderson's "The Man Who Came Early", in which the guy from the future is a total failure in the past.
– user14111
yesterday
Neither of these is the story you're looking for, but a couple of famous stories along those general lines are Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall. Compare with Poul Anderson's "The Man Who Came Early", in which the guy from the future is a total failure in the past.
– user14111
yesterday
@user14111 I first read "The Man Who Came Early" when I was quite young. (In fact, I didn't run across a copy of Lest Darkness Fall until many years later.) I always felt Anderson stacked the deck against his time-traveler by killing the man off before the guy could really hope to adapt his thinking to the primitive conditions around him and decide what was possible. (Much more primitive than the conditions in Ostrogoth-dominated Rome in de Camp's novel.) Give that traveler a little more time, and he might have duplicated Padway's idea of making moonshine with a still to raise capital . . .
– Lorendiac
yesterday
@user14111 I first read "The Man Who Came Early" when I was quite young. (In fact, I didn't run across a copy of Lest Darkness Fall until many years later.) I always felt Anderson stacked the deck against his time-traveler by killing the man off before the guy could really hope to adapt his thinking to the primitive conditions around him and decide what was possible. (Much more primitive than the conditions in Ostrogoth-dominated Rome in de Camp's novel.) Give that traveler a little more time, and he might have duplicated Padway's idea of making moonshine with a still to raise capital . . .
– Lorendiac
yesterday
@Lorendiac --- You don't need moonshine to get ahead in these circumstances. What you need is a BOOM stick.
– Ian Thompson
yesterday
@Lorendiac --- You don't need moonshine to get ahead in these circumstances. What you need is a BOOM stick.
– Ian Thompson
yesterday
If JRE's answer is correct, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons.
– FuzzyBoots
yesterday
If JRE's answer is correct, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons.
– FuzzyBoots
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Sounds like the character Conrad Stargard in "The Cross-Time Engineer" written by Leo Frankowski.
Conrad is an engineer in Poland. While on vacation, he gets drunk in an old tavern. He falls asleep in the basement when he goes looking for a toilet.
The tavern is used as a trading post by a time traveling organisation. Conrad managed to fall asleep in a bunch of goods destined for the middle ages.
When he wakes up, the transfer is complete and Conrad wanders out of the tavern with a hangover and finds himself in 13th century Poland, about 10 years before the Mongols invade in the year 1240.
There are several books about Conrad's adventures.
He does become a knight and build windmills.
Before it is all over, he has also built up a large army (disguised as a religious order to circumvent laws about who is allowed to have an army.) They are to fight off the Mongols.
He also builds a navy of steamships on the rivers in Poland. They are used for trade, but are armed - and all members of the crews belong to his army.
He builds small airplanes with motors.
He builds spark gap radios so the army has good communications.
His army has steel armor and swords made in his factories. They also have gatling gun style machine guns.
Along the way he also introduces some basic sanitation (sewers and toilets) and improved living conditions for the workers in the factories in the town he builds.
The "improving farming" bit came about accidentally.
The day he fell asleep in the tavern, he had been in a farming research facility that also sold small packets of seed to the public. Since he would be close by it on his vacation, his mother had asked him to buy some seed for.
He ended up flirting the rather attractive saleswoman in the shop - she sold him a lot more seed than was reasonable.
She was supposed to meet him at the tavern, but things got in the way and she didn't show up.
Conrad got drunk when it became clear that she wasn't coming to the tavern.
The seeds he had with him were a lot of use in medieval Poland. Modern grains and many vegetables. This brought much improved crop yields and better food.
List of books in the series:
The Cross-Time Engineer
The High-Tech Knight
The Radiant Warrior
The Flying Warlord
Lord Conrad's Lady
answered yesterday
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That series was my first thought when I saw the question, although Books 6 and 7 were written later on. (I own a copy of Book 6, and last year I became aware of Book 7 and read some scathing reviews of it. Apparently it was a collaboration with someone else, shortly before Frankowski died, and some readers felt it didn't measure up to the earlier books.)
– Lorendiac
yesterday
1
The first few books were the best, in my opinion. After that, it got more self-indulgent, to the point where the cross-time benefactors were heavily meddling instead of just keeping Conrad from dying.
– FuzzyBoots
yesterday
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Sounds like the character Conrad Stargard in "The Cross-Time Engineer" written by Leo Frankowski.
Conrad is an engineer in Poland. While on vacation, he gets drunk in an old tavern. He falls asleep in the basement when he goes looking for a toilet.
The tavern is used as a trading post by a time traveling organisation. Conrad managed to fall asleep in a bunch of goods destined for the middle ages.
When he wakes up, the transfer is complete and Conrad wanders out of the tavern with a hangover and finds himself in 13th century Poland, about 10 years before the Mongols invade in the year 1240.
There are several books about Conrad's adventures.
He does become a knight and build windmills.
Before it is all over, he has also built up a large army (disguised as a religious order to circumvent laws about who is allowed to have an army.) They are to fight off the Mongols.
He also builds a navy of steamships on the rivers in Poland. They are used for trade, but are armed - and all members of the crews belong to his army.
He builds small airplanes with motors.
He builds spark gap radios so the army has good communications.
His army has steel armor and swords made in his factories. They also have gatling gun style machine guns.
Along the way he also introduces some basic sanitation (sewers and toilets) and improved living conditions for the workers in the factories in the town he builds.
The "improving farming" bit came about accidentally.
The day he fell asleep in the tavern, he had been in a farming research facility that also sold small packets of seed to the public. Since he would be close by it on his vacation, his mother had asked him to buy some seed for.
He ended up flirting the rather attractive saleswoman in the shop - she sold him a lot more seed than was reasonable.
She was supposed to meet him at the tavern, but things got in the way and she didn't show up.
Conrad got drunk when it became clear that she wasn't coming to the tavern.
The seeds he had with him were a lot of use in medieval Poland. Modern grains and many vegetables. This brought much improved crop yields and better food.
List of books in the series:
The Cross-Time Engineer
The High-Tech Knight
The Radiant Warrior
The Flying Warlord
Lord Conrad's Lady
answered yesterday
JREJRE
4,67412027
That series was my first thought when I saw the question, although Books 6 and 7 were written later on. (I own a copy of Book 6, and last year I became aware of Book 7 and read some scathing reviews of it. Apparently it was a collaboration with someone else, shortly before Frankowski died, and some readers felt it didn't measure up to the earlier books.)
– Lorendiac
yesterday
1
The first few books were the best, in my opinion. After that, it got more self-indulgent, to the point where the cross-time benefactors were heavily meddling instead of just keeping Conrad from dying.
– FuzzyBoots
yesterday
add a comment |
Sounds like the character Conrad Stargard in "The Cross-Time Engineer" written by Leo Frankowski.
Conrad is an engineer in Poland. While on vacation, he gets drunk in an old tavern. He falls asleep in the basement when he goes looking for a toilet.
The tavern is used as a trading post by a time traveling organisation. Conrad managed to fall asleep in a bunch of goods destined for the middle ages.
When he wakes up, the transfer is complete and Conrad wanders out of the tavern with a hangover and finds himself in 13th century Poland, about 10 years before the Mongols invade in the year 1240.
There are several books about Conrad's adventures.
He does become a knight and build windmills.
Before it is all over, he has also built up a large army (disguised as a religious order to circumvent laws about who is allowed to have an army.) They are to fight off the Mongols.
He also builds a navy of steamships on the rivers in Poland. They are used for trade, but are armed - and all members of the crews belong to his army.
He builds small airplanes with motors.
He builds spark gap radios so the army has good communications.
His army has steel armor and swords made in his factories. They also have gatling gun style machine guns.
Along the way he also introduces some basic sanitation (sewers and toilets) and improved living conditions for the workers in the factories in the town he builds.
The "improving farming" bit came about accidentally.
The day he fell asleep in the tavern, he had been in a farming research facility that also sold small packets of seed to the public. Since he would be close by it on his vacation, his mother had asked him to buy some seed for.
He ended up flirting the rather attractive saleswoman in the shop - she sold him a lot more seed than was reasonable.
She was supposed to meet him at the tavern, but things got in the way and she didn't show up.
Conrad got drunk when it became clear that she wasn't coming to the tavern.
The seeds he had with him were a lot of use in medieval Poland. Modern grains and many vegetables. This brought much improved crop yields and better food.
List of books in the series:
The Cross-Time Engineer
The High-Tech Knight
The Radiant Warrior
The Flying Warlord
Lord Conrad's Lady
answered yesterday
JREJRE
4,67412027
That series was my first thought when I saw the question, although Books 6 and 7 were written later on. (I own a copy of Book 6, and last year I became aware of Book 7 and read some scathing reviews of it. Apparently it was a collaboration with someone else, shortly before Frankowski died, and some readers felt it didn't measure up to the earlier books.)
– Lorendiac
yesterday
1
The first few books were the best, in my opinion. After that, it got more self-indulgent, to the point where the cross-time benefactors were heavily meddling instead of just keeping Conrad from dying.
– FuzzyBoots
yesterday
add a comment |
Sounds like the character Conrad Stargard in "The Cross-Time Engineer" written by Leo Frankowski.
Conrad is an engineer in Poland. While on vacation, he gets drunk in an old tavern. He falls asleep in the basement when he goes looking for a toilet.
The tavern is used as a trading post by a time traveling organisation. Conrad managed to fall asleep in a bunch of goods destined for the middle ages.
When he wakes up, the transfer is complete and Conrad wanders out of the tavern with a hangover and finds himself in 13th century Poland, about 10 years before the Mongols invade in the year 1240.
There are several books about Conrad's adventures.
He does become a knight and build windmills.
Before it is all over, he has also built up a large army (disguised as a religious order to circumvent laws about who is allowed to have an army.) They are to fight off the Mongols.
He also builds a navy of steamships on the rivers in Poland. They are used for trade, but are armed - and all members of the crews belong to his army.
He builds small airplanes with motors.
He builds spark gap radios so the army has good communications.
His army has steel armor and swords made in his factories. They also have gatling gun style machine guns.
Along the way he also introduces some basic sanitation (sewers and toilets) and improved living conditions for the workers in the factories in the town he builds.
The "improving farming" bit came about accidentally.
The day he fell asleep in the tavern, he had been in a farming research facility that also sold small packets of seed to the public. Since he would be close by it on his vacation, his mother had asked him to buy some seed for.
He ended up flirting the rather attractive saleswoman in the shop - she sold him a lot more seed than was reasonable.
She was supposed to meet him at the tavern, but things got in the way and she didn't show up.
Conrad got drunk when it became clear that she wasn't coming to the tavern.
The seeds he had with him were a lot of use in medieval Poland. Modern grains and many vegetables. This brought much improved crop yields and better food.
List of books in the series:
The Cross-Time Engineer
The High-Tech Knight
The Radiant Warrior
The Flying Warlord
Lord Conrad's Lady
answered yesterday
JREJRE
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Sounds like the character Conrad Stargard in "The Cross-Time Engineer" written by Leo Frankowski.
Conrad is an engineer in Poland. While on vacation, he gets drunk in an old tavern. He falls asleep in the basement when he goes looking for a toilet.
The tavern is used as a trading post by a time traveling organisation. Conrad managed to fall asleep in a bunch of goods destined for the middle ages.
When he wakes up, the transfer is complete and Conrad wanders out of the tavern with a hangover and finds himself in 13th century Poland, about 10 years before the Mongols invade in the year 1240.
There are several books about Conrad's adventures.
He does become a knight and build windmills.
Before it is all over, he has also built up a large army (disguised as a religious order to circumvent laws about who is allowed to have an army.) They are to fight off the Mongols.
He also builds a navy of steamships on the rivers in Poland. They are used for trade, but are armed - and all members of the crews belong to his army.
He builds small airplanes with motors.
He builds spark gap radios so the army has good communications.
His army has steel armor and swords made in his factories. They also have gatling gun style machine guns.
Along the way he also introduces some basic sanitation (sewers and toilets) and improved living conditions for the workers in the factories in the town he builds.
The "improving farming" bit came about accidentally.
The day he fell asleep in the tavern, he had been in a farming research facility that also sold small packets of seed to the public. Since he would be close by it on his vacation, his mother had asked him to buy some seed for.
He ended up flirting the rather attractive saleswoman in the shop - she sold him a lot more seed than was reasonable.
She was supposed to meet him at the tavern, but things got in the way and she didn't show up.
Conrad got drunk when it became clear that she wasn't coming to the tavern.
The seeds he had with him were a lot of use in medieval Poland. Modern grains and many vegetables. This brought much improved crop yields and better food.
List of books in the series:
The Cross-Time Engineer
The High-Tech Knight
The Radiant Warrior
The Flying Warlord
Lord Conrad's Lady
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That series was my first thought when I saw the question, although Books 6 and 7 were written later on. (I own a copy of Book 6, and last year I became aware of Book 7 and read some scathing reviews of it. Apparently it was a collaboration with someone else, shortly before Frankowski died, and some readers felt it didn't measure up to the earlier books.)
– Lorendiac
yesterday
1
The first few books were the best, in my opinion. After that, it got more self-indulgent, to the point where the cross-time benefactors were heavily meddling instead of just keeping Conrad from dying.
– FuzzyBoots
yesterday
add a comment |
That series was my first thought when I saw the question, although Books 6 and 7 were written later on. (I own a copy of Book 6, and last year I became aware of Book 7 and read some scathing reviews of it. Apparently it was a collaboration with someone else, shortly before Frankowski died, and some readers felt it didn't measure up to the earlier books.)
– Lorendiac
yesterday
1
The first few books were the best, in my opinion. After that, it got more self-indulgent, to the point where the cross-time benefactors were heavily meddling instead of just keeping Conrad from dying.
– FuzzyBoots
yesterday
That series was my first thought when I saw the question, although Books 6 and 7 were written later on. (I own a copy of Book 6, and last year I became aware of Book 7 and read some scathing reviews of it. Apparently it was a collaboration with someone else, shortly before Frankowski died, and some readers felt it didn't measure up to the earlier books.)
– Lorendiac
yesterday
That series was my first thought when I saw the question, although Books 6 and 7 were written later on. (I own a copy of Book 6, and last year I became aware of Book 7 and read some scathing reviews of it. Apparently it was a collaboration with someone else, shortly before Frankowski died, and some readers felt it didn't measure up to the earlier books.)
– Lorendiac
yesterday
1
1
The first few books were the best, in my opinion. After that, it got more self-indulgent, to the point where the cross-time benefactors were heavily meddling instead of just keeping Conrad from dying.
– FuzzyBoots
yesterday
The first few books were the best, in my opinion. After that, it got more self-indulgent, to the point where the cross-time benefactors were heavily meddling instead of just keeping Conrad from dying.
– FuzzyBoots
yesterday
add a comment |
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Hi and welcome to the site! Did you read this in English? This has a good amount of detail but you can also go through this list and see if you can think of any more to add. scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9335/…
– MissMonicaE
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Neither of these is the story you're looking for, but a couple of famous stories along those general lines are Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and L. Sprague de Camp's Lest Darkness Fall. Compare with Poul Anderson's "The Man Who Came Early", in which the guy from the future is a total failure in the past.
– user14111
yesterday
@user14111 I first read "The Man Who Came Early" when I was quite young. (In fact, I didn't run across a copy of Lest Darkness Fall until many years later.) I always felt Anderson stacked the deck against his time-traveler by killing the man off before the guy could really hope to adapt his thinking to the primitive conditions around him and decide what was possible. (Much more primitive than the conditions in Ostrogoth-dominated Rome in de Camp's novel.) Give that traveler a little more time, and he might have duplicated Padway's idea of making moonshine with a still to raise capital . . .
– Lorendiac
yesterday
@Lorendiac --- You don't need moonshine to get ahead in these circumstances. What you need is a BOOM stick.
– Ian Thompson
yesterday
If JRE's answer is correct, you can accept it by clicking on the checkmark by the voting buttons.
– FuzzyBoots
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