Novel by
David Drake. The main
protagonist is
Nils Hansen who is brought from his
futuristic Judge Dredd like duties to a strange
multiverse which mirrors the world of
norse mythology in a
surreal way with a very
feudal and
primative society that inexplicably has access to bits of
high technology such as
powered armor stemming from the
mysterious Matrix (a sort of
realm of ideals as
Plato often
philosophized about and some how
links the
nine worlds) Features an interesting
pantheon of
norse gods with peculiar twists. The
protagonist is, of course, a
master tactician in keeping with
David Drake's other
books.